Electricity is out to hundreds of homes in Christchurch and Canterbury, while some residents report wading through water above their knees. There's more rain to come.
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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. It was quickly dubbed “the big snow” and was the heaviest snowfall in three decades. “Christchurch teetered on the brink of disaster yesterday as the worst snowstorm in 30 years first paralysed the city, then caused widespread flooding,”
The Press reported on August 29, 1992.
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The big snow hits Beckenham in 1992. “The storm, billed as the worst natural disaster for decades, caused havoc throughout the region. Thousands of stock have perished, while the snow closed schools, roads, the courts, shops, businesses, and Christchurch Airport.”
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Smart, William D, 1830?-1900
Farmer, goldminer and amateur artist. Born London, he arrived in New Zealand, with his brother John Franklin Smart, at Lyttelton, 1 March 1851. Between 1851 and 1861 he farmed with Mr H Turner, the Christchurch run from the Waimakariri to the Heathcote River. He travelled from Christchurch to the Otago goldfields in 1861 and to the West Coast goldfields in ca 1862/1863. His illustrated diary of his goldmining experiences is held by either Canterbury Museum or the MacMillan Brown collection, University of Canterbury. Returned to Christchurch in 1872. Resided at a cottage called `Grantchester Christchurch ca 1890s or earlier. Visited Stewart Island, 1890s and drew Canterbury back-country scenes as early as 1862. He married the widow of Joseph Deighton in 1874. He had no
Keith the thief terrorises his neighbourhood, stealing work boots, tools and even a Corrections officer s shirt.
A Corrections officer’s shirt, ladies swimsuits, entire washing lines with pegs attached, the local tradie’s steel-toed boots, bras, shoes and live eels. You name it, Keith the kleptomaniac has probably pinched it. In the small hours of the morning, Keith, a five-year-old black cat, roams his quiet street in suburban Christchurch, committing burglary after burglary and lavishing his owners, Ginny and David Rumbold, with elaborate gifts.
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Keith the thief, with some of his ill-gotten gains. So bad is his recidivist offending, the couple have had to put two plastic containers at the front gate of their Hoon Hay property with Keith’s ill-gotten gains, complete with apology note, so that locals can reclaim their possessions.