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important roads in which the snow in the centres having become frozen
into a solid mass of ice could not be dealt with. The frost continued
until the 26th when a slight thaw occurred, but was followed
by frost until the 1st January, 1891, when a thaw again set
in for a short time. Up to that time the snow had remained
in heaps at the sides of the principal thoroughfares, but on the
2nd January the Vestry decided to cart it away. Additional men, horses
and carts were immediately engaged, and the work of removal was
proceeded with from the 3rd until the 15th January, during which
time 11,929 cubic yards of snow were removed and stacked in the depot
at Ashburton Grove, around the squares, and in certain roads having
no houses on one side. Prior to this, 1,648 cubic yards of snow had
been carted to the depots from important sections of main thoroughfares.
Snow fell again on the 8th January to a depth of 1½ inches, when
the roads were once more cleared by the aid of additional men.
As soon as a general thaw commenced the snow which had been
placed round the squares and in other roads was melted with the aid of
water and passed down the gullies into the sewers.

A further fall occurred on the night of the 9th March and
continued until the morning of the 10th, when the snow lay three
inches deep and in some places where it had drifted even as