CANTERBURY SNOWSTORM

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1930, Page 3

CANTERBURY SNOWSTORM

SMALL LOSSES OF STOCK. Losses of stock owing to the snow storm in Canterbury last week- were very small, according to reports received in Christchurch. There was a fear that early lambs would suffer, but this has apparently not been the case. The snow fall confined itself to the coastal aria from Rakaia to Parnassus,' and did not reach far enough inland to affect a great area of country. Few farmers consider it worth while* to produce lambs befo’e the beginning of August and those who sell on the very early markets are well for any weather that may come aloil g' ‘ ' One farmer near Kaiapoi, on . whose property 120 lambs were born during the few days immediately preceding the storm, lost only four of that total. In ■the district around Lincoln there are several flocks of early lambs, but losses here were again very small, and vseiC, in fact, not more than is usually experienced with very early lambs. None of the country from the foothills back suffered from the snow and there were, of course, no losses theie.