I AGREE with Shelley Wright (LET, August 26) -- that the end of the world is nigh.

It often is, if you listen to those who believe it and who divest themselves of worldly possessions before climbing to high places to watch it all, presumably before jumping.

As regards the snow that Shelley mentioned, which fell on her birthday in April, that would be in 1981 when our pink flowering-currant bushes, which were in bloom, turned white. However, there was a heavy fall of snow in mid-June, 1966; before she was around to see it.

We were living in Nelson, where we still live, and the trees had been in leaf for over two months.

The weight of snow which fell was so great, that many of the branches were torn or broken off. The bottom part of Scotland Road, near the then Reedyford Hospital, was completely blocked to traffic until the branches were removed.

Within a short time, the snow had melted, but not before I had taken a 16mm movie-film of our Safari model Land Rover with over six-inches of that snow on it.

ALBERT MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.