SNOWFALL IN SOUTH.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18706, 4 August 1932, Page 8

SNOWFALL IN SOUTH.

CANTERBURY COVERED. mortality amongst lambs. AIRMAN'S FORCED LANDING. (By Telegrapn.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. There was a fall of snow throughout Canterbury this morning. It lasted half an hour in the city, but considerably longer in the northern parts of the province, where the fall was,much heavier. It was feared that there might be mortality among lambs, which are fairly numerous in some districts. Forty miles north-west of Christchurch the fall was four inches, but to the south it was about an inch only. At Kaikoura the depth In places was up to six inches. Unable to llnd the Wigram aerodrome in- the snowstorm this morning Mr W. E. Clark, ground engineer and assistant pilot to New Zealand Airways, Ltd., was compelled to make a forced landing with a three-seater Spartan aeroplane on the Addington trotting grounds. He made a perfect landing. The passengers were Miss Esther James, who recently finished a walking tour of New Zealand advertising Dominion-made goods, and Mr H. M. Mackay, managing director of New Zealand Airways.