The heavy 1992 snowfall in the Canterbury district of New Zealand killed more than
a million sheep , causing losses of
$50 million, and closed Christchurch
for 12 hours . Some residents , below , donned
tropical clothing and posed
on a balcony with Queensland
travel brochures, snow in abundance .
The pictorial booklet , published by Philip King Booksellers , was recently acquired by a Little Darwin runner in a sweaty round of Townsville op shops . Over the years , this writer has visited Christchurch several times and bought interesting books, pieces of ephemera , and even old pub soda siphons-now sitting on a showcase gathering dust . The city’s own wizard was seen speaking to passers by from a stand in Cathedral Square.
