WIRELESS REPORTS OF WEATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 7

WIRELESS REPORTS OF WEATHER.

VALUABLE INFORMATION TO MARINERS. Captain Fisher, master of the Canadian Highlander, expressed surprise this morning that he had received no wireless report of the weather prevailing in New Zealand as he approached Auckland. He said that such information was very useful when Hearing port, and if on the present occasion he had been advised of the approaching storm from the westward he could have brought his vessel earlier into the lee of the laud and gained about three hours by escaping part of the gale. His barometer, lie said, gave him no indication of the approaching gale into which he ran on Saturday evening.

According to information from the Auckland wireless station, weather reports are sent out every evening except Saturday and Sunday to steamers approaching port. The Auckland station could hear the Canadian Highlander eight days before she reached port, and the vessel should have been able to hear some of the latest reports last week, especially as the Auckland station, uiider favourable conditions, has a rang.; as far as Honolulu, while the Awanui station, which is the more powerful of the two, could transmit still further.

Reports are not sent out on Saturday night and on Sunday night from Auckland because the office is then closed: but Sydney wrnds out a report on Saturday nights, and these can be heard quite plainly at Auckland.