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

j&ka/Mng from Parikanapa this afternoon Mr. ft. Creswell stated that they were experiencing a regular southerly ‘'buster” and the weather was bitterly cold. After a night of heavy rain snowing commenced at daylight and two and n-haft hoiks latter there was a deposit of about 9in. The fall was general over nil the hill country. Rain set in about g a.nl. and left a coating of about 3in. of snpw. It was still snowing this afternoon, but with the rain that was also falling the depth of snow was not increasing. Mr. Creswejl added that most of-the lambing was over and the lambs ( wer«r no\v fairly sturdy, but the cold snap would catch a few stragglers and the late ones. No doubt there would be a small loss. At 7 o’clock this morning the thermometer tinder cover registered 25 degrees, and at 3- p.m. it ~ was degrees on the warm side of the bouse, under cover.