Heavy Snowstorm in Otago
ACCOMPANIED BY ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 24. After a comparatively fine week-end, Dunedin to-day experienced a succession of heavy snowstorms. Snow lay thickly in tho city and on the hill suburbs, where the bus services, over which there has been so much controversy, underwent their severest test to date, a number of narrow escapes from serious accident being reported. The fall was general throughout the province, the road to the central districts through Outrani and Aliddlemarch being impassable and chains being necessary on all other roads leading from the city. The snowstorms were accompanied by an electrical disturbance of an unusual cnaracter, there being two particularly vivid flashes of lightning and rolling peals of thunder, the whole of tho city and surrounding hills being illuminated and radio programmes being interrupted.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 6
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137Heavy Snowstorm in Otago Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 6
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