Heaviest Fall for Years In Auckland Province

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 160, 10 July 1939, Page 6

Heaviest Fall for Years In Auckland Province

FLAKES SEEN IN CITY Per Press Association. . AUCKLAND, July 9. Variously described as the heaviest ever recorded and the heaviest for many years, snow fell in parts of Waikato and Thames Valley. Where snow was not experienced the weather was bitterly cold with heavy showers. Accompanying a light rain shower snow fell for approximately five minutes around the Waiatarua Guest House, on one of the highest points of the Wait alcere Ranges. The fall was so gentle that it barely covered the ground. Another gentle snowfall was reported from l’onsonby by a man who saw flakes. All eyes wero turned to the mountain when tho heaviest snowfall within memory was experienced in Tc Aroha. Mount To Aroha (3000 ft.) was heavily coated and a light fall to within 800 ft. of the residential area was experienced. Snowflakes were falling in the town but they quickly melted. Never in the history of Tc Aroha has a fall been registered to come below the 1000 ft. mark. The Cambridge district experienced an exceptionally cold snap culminating in a heavy fall of snow on the Maungakawa and Alaungatatauri Ranges. The fall is the first this winter and the (heaviest for several years.

Never has snow been seen so low on the hills of the Hauraki Peninsula.