HEAVY SNOWFALL

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1938, Page 7

HEAVY SNOWFALL

MACKENZIE COUNTRY'S tXPtKItNUn. 1 | (Per Press Association—Copyright). ; OKRALDINL, Juno 17. Tlio worst sin o' full I'or nine years threatens I lie Mackenzie Country witli an excep tii nia I r,v cold "Hirer- t>unJioldtrs are all Imsy “snowraking’> in an oiiori to In uij- their .sleep to sate r, ;i on ini . nearer the homesteads, and thousands of .h‘ *'i’ ttill he brought down the country to safer Winter pastures d tiling the neat lew days. Bceau.se of tins lrk< ly exodus of sheep which will keep the Mackenzie, roads busy for a time, the Mackenzie County Engineer (.Ur a. r . n. >L um mm ... sued an ap]leal to motorists to make things as easy as possible lor the movers, who will be working under very trying conditions.

‘•Motorists are advised that unless it : is essential to rise up-eount.ry roads it, would he better lor their own [imposes and for (he care ol the stock it such trips ale left til! later,’’ states -Mr | .Jeiilie’s appeal. “The. snow Will he ill i the Mackenzie all the winter.’’ ! ‘■Motorists should remember when eiieouiitei ing molts ol sheep that these animals have been dogged and harried for days and nights through temperatuns nc-t'ually In-low zero The feet mgs ami tempers of the men with the sheep are in keeping with the temperature." Motorists are advised to pull their ears into the snowbank at the road silky to' stop their engines, and not to restart j them until the sheep are past.” j The appeal warns motorists not to expect' the council’s heavy I.rucks and snow-ploughs to pull oil the road to let them pns-s. j "If they pull off and get hogged or go over the bunk, you cannot pull them out,” stall’s th(‘ appeal, “hut if you pull oil' a hit anil lid'them past, and ' you get stuck, the council unit can > pull you out.” j Kunhoklors are asked in the appeal | to co-operate with the Mackenzie Conn- I t ly office, with a view to adv ising the days they will he on the road. They | are advised lo get out quickly, because! the roads will lie worse through the drifts when tin* wind i isos. j Thirty degrees of frost wen* report-' ed from Tekapo this morning. "‘The * plant is working day and night to clear ' the roads throughout the country,’' I Mr ./eiiiie told a representative of “The Press” to-day The main roads were clear and the Lily hank road was being opened. The Bod ley Peaks road

would then lie tackled. Snow clearing had been exceptionally

difficult this year because of the soft nature of the snow. The staff was working under exposed and trying condications. If a snow plough operator touched the inmwork of his plough he risked blistering his hands, the temperatures were so cold. A number ol tin* rimholders would bring their sheep downeountry to winter he said.

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