WINTER WINDS AGAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 9

WINTER WINDS AGAIN

BLIZZARD ON MOUNT EGMONT. province shivers in change. High winds and low temperatures have made Taranaki people realise in the last 36 hours that a week of spring weather does not necessarily mean that winter has had its last word with the province. Yesterday a howling southeasterly with a bite of frost in it, set New Plymouth shivering and brought winter overcoats into the streets again. Gardens which had brightened with late spring flowers in the short period of unseasonable warm were wilted by midday, magnolias and rhododendrons, particularly, catching the full force of the blast. One gardening optimist at least has had his hopes dashed by the fate of a row of French beans in his kitchen garden. Mount Egmont hostels last night reported from eight inches to a foot of fresh soft mow, and at North Egmont a blizzard had been howling for 24 hours. A 20-mile-an-hour wind raised short, choppy seas off the coast and kept small craft in she’ter.

The severity < the weather conditions lost nothing by sense of contrast. There were few '\ew 1 icuth people with business in the town yesterday who did not turn the collars of their overcoats higher when they passed the display window of one up-to-the-minute draper. In it were displayed the very latest thing in women’s backless bathing costumes!