STORM EXPERT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 179, 1 August 1939, Page 9

STORM EXPERT.

NEW APPOINTMENT.

DR. W. A. MACKY'S POST. TO LEAVE FOR BERMUDA. An expert on Auckland's weather, and a leading authority on storme in the Southern Pacific, Dr. Wallace A. Macky, who has been Government Meteorologist at Auckland for nearly two years and a half, will leave next month to take up an appointment as head of the meteorological office at Bermuda, one of the important airports in the North Atlantic.

When appointed to hie present position in April, 1937, Dr. Macky established a meteorological office at Hobsonville air base, where his observations wore made during the pioneer ocean flight* to New Zealand of the PanAmerican flying boat Samoan Clipper, piloted by the late Captain Edwin Musick, mid Imperial Airways flying boat Centaurus, under the command of Captain J. W. Burgea?. Towards the cud of last year the meteorological office wan transferred from Hobsonville to Auckland city, and recently was estab-l.-i'ul at the commercial air base at Mechanics' Hay.

In preparation for the inauguration of the air services from Australia nnd America to Auckland, Dr. Mucky has Ihmti engaged in compiling weather record* unci information covering an exliiiHJ\(i ami of tlie Pacific which will be traversed liy tlie Hying boats. A meteorological service to meet the future M'.|iiiiementH of ocean air travel has In , i , n organised. Before coming to Auckland, Dr. Macky was for a time at the head office of the Meteorological Department in Wellington, find prior to that had experience in organising a weather service for Southern Malaya, with headquarters at Singapore. From 1028 to 1931 he carried nut a course of research study at Cambridge and obtained practical experience of British aviation requirements. He is an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School and an honours graduate of the Auckland University College.