HEAVY SNOWSTORM
EXPERIENCED IN MARLBOROUGH (Per Press Association—Copyright). BLENHEIM, July 9. Reports coming to hand from country districts, show that last week's snowstorm in Marlborough was the heaviest ever- recorded. At Moleswortli there is still four feet of snow on the flats. All hands are snowed in, and tracks have to be cut to maiinstate communication with various buildings. Even as low down the valley as Upcot and Glenlee, the snow is two feet deep and tlie settlers are completely isolated, the depth of drifts in various passes being impossible to estimate. A mail car which left Blenheim at 8 a.in. on Friday for Upper Awatere, had covered only 37 miles by 4.30., and the driver spent the night at Awapiri. ‘ On Saturday morning, lie pushed on a further four miles, hut then had to abandon tlie trip. On the way back to Blenheim, lie encountered phenomenal rai n <and the car was hogged in a watertable, not being rescued till Sunday afternoon. Altogether it took three days to cover 80 miles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1934, Page 5
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