MANTLE OF WHITE.
SCENE AT NELSON. Per Press Association. NELSON, July 19. As dusk approached last evening snow began to fall lightly in Nelson, and dawn this morning revealed a cloudless sky and a perfect sunny day with the landscape on all sides of the bay covered with a white mantle .to the water’s edge. The fall was light in the city and environs, but comparatively heavy in some of the country districts. In the Moutere the telegraph communication was interrupted, hut repairs to the line were completed this morning. There was a very heavy fall of snow on Takaka Hill.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 2
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101MANTLE OF WHITE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 2
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