UNUSUAL SNOW
MAIN TRUNK EXPERIENCE
' A regular blizzard
(Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day
“ I have been running on the Main. Trunk line for close on 20 years now, and I have never seen snow on both sides of the Porootarao ridge before,” said the driver’of the Limited express) on arrival at Auckland. _ From-. Mai - miha up to Mangapeehi there was a mantle of snow,” he continued, ” and the weather was particularly cold. Further back on the line there was a regular blizzard, and some of the passengers engaged in snow-balling.” The Limited express from Wellington was three-quarters of an hour late, in arriving at Auckland. Instead of, reaching Marten at 10.56 p.m. she did not pull in to that station till 55 minutes later. The delay was caused through dropping a tablet at Shannon.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 5
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136UNUSUAL SNOW Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 5
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