MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE COLONY.
The "Otago Daily Times" of yesterday's date states:—"A magnetic survey of the colony is to be made by Mr C. Coleridge Farr, who arrived in Dunedin from the north by the express train on Friday evening. The preliminary operations in connection with the proposed work will commence to-day in the vicinity of Port Chalmers. Mr Farr is to be assisted in every practicable way by the Government Survey Department, and he has had placed at his disposal very valuable instruments which have been lent to the New Zealand Government by the Imperial authorities at Kew. The object of a magnetic survey is to determine what alteration, if any, has taken place in connection with the variation of the mariner's compass, and the importance of this to navigation is sufficiently obvious."
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10265, 7 February 1899, Page 5
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