SNOWSTORMS IN HAWKE'S BAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 168, 19 July 1939, Page 3

SNOWSTORMS IN HAWKE'S BAY

SEVEN-INCH FALL RECORDED HEAVY LAMB MORTALITY BELIEVED I I Per 1 . as'* s «-c.-.’iaUon. ) HASTINGS, July 17. I The whole of the Hawke’s Bay pro- ! vince this morning experienced a j sharp drop in temperature with wide-: spread snowfalls, the third in eight days. Conditions m central areas wen ' particularly bad where falls of up I. ; seven inches were registered on pkiii:. I and more on the foothills and rang'?.-. ; Severe snowstorms arc still ragm. in the Ruahines and Kaiwakas ami ; ! is possible that it there is a sudden ■ thaw rivers generally will rise w L; possible flooding. Scattered show r , and snow fell in Napier and Hasting during the day, but melted on r?acu ing the giound. The hills nearby ww > | covered with a white mantle. Oi residents describe the conditions as iim previously encountered. PvOads geperally arc passable but care is nucc..sary on the Napi' r-Taupo and Napi> ! Gisborne roads also on the Main Sou ii Road which has a frozen glassy sut i face. There is i) lieved to have been ; ■ heavy mortality in early lambs. Con lions to-night are still wintry, I (here are prospects of an imps •- ment.