SNOW AND SLEET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 9

SNOW AND SLEET

STORM IN CANTERBURY HEAVY LOSS OF LAMBS (Per Press Association.) CHIvISTCHUBCH, last night, The worst snow storm experienced during lambing time in North Canterbury for several -seasons began early this morning and continued through ■the day. At Cheviot it was reported that one farmer had lost more than 100 lambs, and that his experience was by no means singular. At Hawarden there was sleet and bail, and any lambs born during the night w'ere not expected to live. Bnow was.still falling very heavily in the evening at Waiau, and the inland road to Kaikoura was expected W be blocked by drifts during tire night, la places where the snow was not so heavy the south-west wind was excep tt mally.kecji and driving sleet and fin. were expected to cause heavy mortality in lambs. Clarence Bridge and the district: north of Waiau were fortunate, as not only has lambing scarcely begun, but the storm had practically blown itself uut when it reached there. Cheviot was also fortunate in missing the brunt, of' the storm, as it passed more inland, and very little snow fell in the township. In mid-Canterbury, the snowfall was not so heavy, though the wind was very keen, and the ground under foot was very wet and muddy. The western districts of 'South Canterbury felt the full force of the southwest storm, though there was much less snow and Fleet than in the north, and the lambing season has not become so advanced.

Banks Peninsula and the city escaped without a fall of snow, but the day was very cold, with passing heavy rain showers from the south-west; 1 No serious mortality among lambs is 1 expected on the peninsula and on the plains in the neighborhood of the city. There is very little snow lying on the flats in mid-Canterbury and South. Canterbury, as the ground is very wet underfoot, but, in the northern and western districts, where the fall was much heavier, the ground is white. The foothills along the Alps and the peninsula tops are snow-covered. .