STORM IN SOUTH

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6097, 3 September 1947, Page 4

STORM IN SOUTH

CAMBRIDGE GETS TAIL END TREES UPROOTED Stormy weather has been ex. perienced in the South this week, with heavy falls of snow, up to 12 inches deep around Taupo, Waiouru and National Park ar e as. Heavy rain fell in the South Island around Hokitika and in the Wellington Province Roads have been flooded and others made impassable by deep snow.

Cambridge apparently experienced the tail end of the storm yesterday, when the conditions were cold and showery. There was quite a storm about 5.30 p.m it lasting for about an hour. At times the wind was cyclonic and as a result several trees were uprooted. One large tree in Fort Street was uprooted and fell into the police property. * Four power poles in the Cambridge Board’s are were blown down. These secondary poles were two at Fencourt and one in each of the Roto-o-rangi . and Tamahere districts. Snow N e ar Cambridge Our Roto-o-rangi correspondent reports that early this morning snow whs visible on the Maungatautari Ranges and particularly along the range to Orepunga and Pukeatua. There was a heavy fall of snow on Pirongia Mountain.