The snow gradually deepened from 2ft to about 5ft at Naseby, the only track being a ditch 18in wide made by horses.
The farmers all around the road are snowed in, and apparently are having difficulty in maintaining their stock.
The snow is deepest on the hills a mile before reaching Naseby, where the telephone wire was down.
A Chinaman's house has been crushed flat, and the resident was digging down to reach articles on the clothes line, just beneath the surface.
The Government forest plantation here has suffered severely.
So far as I could see half the trees have been crushed beneath the weight of snow.
Naseby itself presented a remarkable sight.
Trees, with which the town is richly endowed, have been broken and uprooted in all directions, while those remaining upright bear a terrific burden of snow.
The snow is about level with the main street fences, while the majority of the buildings had snow piled high on the roofs and round the sides.
Everywhere men are busily engaged in cutting tracks through the snow.
Ordinary business, except that in the shops, has been practically suspended.
A large team of horses, hitched tandem fashion to a large plough arrangement did some good service.
The people in the streets moved about in a series of ditches, only their heads and shoulders showing.
It is stated that not a building in the main street has escaped damage to greater or less extent, while scarcely a verandah remains intact.
The buildings in most cases are out of plumb, preventing the doors moving, and many roofs are damaged.
The most serious loss is that sustained by the proprietor of the Mount Ida Chronicle, whose office caved in, mixing up all the case type and making the removal of the machinery to other premises necessary.
He estimates his loss at 100.
The people here are accepting the condition imposed by the worst storm ever experienced with cheerful philosophy, but the farmers and miners in the outlying districts are suffering.
Much anxiety is being felt for isolated miners and rabbiters in the back country. - ODT, 13.7.1908.
