SLEET! HAIL! SNOW! CONVENTION.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 375, 18 September 1926, Page 12

SLEET! HAIL! SNOW! CONVENTION.

Our Editor has just returned from the Wellington District Convention. \ full account of this will appear next month. The clerk of the weather did his best to celebrate the occasion by sending the severest snow storm experienced for years. Convention closed at mid-day. It was a gloomy morning with heavy rain storms, but about 1 p.m. the weather started to show what it could do. It hailed and then it sleeted, and lastly, it snowed. Our Editor went hack to Carterton with Miss Oates, the newly-elected District President, and Mrs Every, Carterton President. We faced the fury of the storm, and snow settled on the wind rn en. Soon the patient little ticker who keeps the screen clear had to stop, the weight of snow was too great. Paddocks on each side of us were white, and soon it was increasingly difficult to see the road. Miss Oates got out to clear the wind screen and scraped off snow quite half an inch thick. The snow stopped for an interval, and our little ticker, relieved from the w'eight of snow, che rfully took up his task and kept a clear space for the driver to see through. It snowed heavily during the afternoon and evening, and this morning we left the Wairarapa during a heavy storm of hail and snow\ We were quite glad to get on own side of the range, and have again the glorious nshine of the Manawatu.