STORMS IN SOUTH

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19598, 10 June 1935, Page 8

STORMS IN SOUTH

DAMAGE AT CHRISTCHURCH

POWER POLES SNAPPED OFF.

DIFFICULTIES OF MOTORISTS

■FOUR FEET OF SNOW IN DRIFTS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Monday

After the heaviest snowfall in the province for three years, communication is gradually being restored with the outlying districts, though up. till noon Leeston, Lincoln, 'Little River, and Akaroa were still cut off. On many roads near Little River the drifts are four feet deep in places. The worst damage was on the Midland Road at Waddington, where the snow was knee deep- A party of motorists returning to the city had to use spades and shovels to dig a track for their car.

All power lines .were down near the Yaldhurst Hotel on the main road west. The big wooden poles were snapped off like matches, and the big steel bridge poles were bent like willows. The actual power lines were terribly tangled and were lying across the road and motorists were forced to drive over them.

At other parts cars'had to he abandoned. This was the fate of several cars, even in Fendalton suburb, where the snow lay thickest in the city. Today is bright and .fine.