RANGES COATED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 12

RANGES COATED

EAST COAST COUNTRY HIGHWAY UNDER MANTLE LITTLE DELAY TO TRAFFIC [by TEIjKCUAI'II—owx cohhkspondknt] GISBORNE, Wednesday The ranges surrounding Poverty Bay were coated with a liberal fall of snow during the night. No trouble was experienced on the roads by passenger and transport motor services, and inward cars and lorries were little delayed. Passengers in the morning service flights of East Coast Airways, Limited, were able to see, through breaks in the mist, patches of the snow-covered area at the back of Poverty Hay. The pilot, Squadron-Leader T. W. White, reported that as far as could be seen there was snow on all the back country down to the level of 800 ft. It extended from the ranges behind Gisborne to Napier and beyond. Conditions at Tiniroto On the journey to Napier early this ! morning the aero piano encountered snow and hail, but there was only hail 011 the return journey. A 52 miles 'an hour wind was experienced, but no anxiety was felt. At Tiniroto the snowfall started at 6 p.m. yesterday and continued all night. This morning there was a coating of Sin. around the hotel: Thero was a, stretch of 40 miles of snowcovered highway on the routo to Tiniroto, extending from a point on Gentle Annie Hill to Marumaru. Vehicles could not get a grip on the road, and the snow was transformed into a slippery, icy surface. Stock In Paddocks Travelling to Gisborne from Hanga- ! roa, Mr. H. Mor ice encountered snow 1 over a considerable part of the journey on the hill section. Although the cattle in the paddocks were huddled together, Mr. Morice noticed that the sheep seen from the road were showing no signs of distress. Jn spite of the heavy fall and low temperature in the higher levels, the animals all seemed to bo finding something to eat in sheltered corners, and he thought that thero would bo no loss of stock on the properties served by the Hangaroa Road.

CONDITIONS AT PUKEKOHE

LITTLE SETBACK TO CHOPS

[FROM OUR OWN" CORRESPONDENT]

PUKEKOHE, Wednesday

Rain lato las't night gave place t<\ cold, clear conditions early this morning and thcro was a frost of four degrees. Earlv potato crops aro beginning to make their appearance above ground on Pukekohe Hill, but thev were not sufficiently far advanced for this morning's frost to cause any very appreciable setback.