EMPIRE CONCLAVE

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 7

EMPIRE CONCLAVE

WEATHER EXPERTS.

Chain of Stations Round the World to Aid Flyers.

METEOROLOGICAL SCHEME

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)'

(Received 12.30 p.m.) LOND®jST, August 21

Plans for a chain of meteorological stations along all Imperial air routes were among the topics discussed by Empire weather experts at a conference in London.

"It is hoped we shall have a chain of services from London to Australia, from South Africa to Canada," said Sir George Simpson, Director of the Meteorological Office, after the conference.

"All services must work to a uniform system," he said. "Aeroplanes are going to fly by night and day, and their safety will depend largely on the help from "meteorological stations. It is proposed to broadcast information from high-power wireless stations at Rugby, Arlington, Sydney, Tokyo, Cairo- and Moscow."

The conference recommended the establishment of an ocean observatory at Tristan da Cunha and an Arctic meteorological station at Chesterfield Inlet, Hudson Bay. The latter will be about 400 miles from the north magnetic pole.