WEATHER REPORTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 103, 12 February 1936, Page 7

WEATHER REPORTS.

AUCKLAND FARMERS’ CRITICISM REORGANISATION ADVOCATED. AUCKLAND, February 11. “That, in view of the misleading weather reports published daily in the newspapers, which can only be classed as dead reckonings or rule of thumb, we request that the Meteorological Department be reorganised,” was a remit moved by Mr T. D. Bathgate, of Kaipara, at a meeting of the Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union to-day. The mover said that for the last few months the Government forecast had been mostly “Scattered showers,” and it was a common saying now, when scattered showers were prophesied, that one could look forward to a deluge. The first warning of a storm was a fall in the barometer. In his district, 300 or 400 pigs and sheep hac! been lost, which with a warning, might have been removed to safe ground. Mr J. H. Furniss said that several lives had been lost because no warning had been given. An amendment moved by Mr A. B. Moore, “That the Government he requested to place larger financial resources at the disposal of the Department,” lapsed for want of a secondex. The remit was adopted in the following form: —“’That this meeting requests that tho Government Meteorological Department be reorganised.”