WEATHER REPORT TO N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25449, 22 March 1948, Page 3

WEATHER REPORT TO N.Z.

MESSAGES FROM SOUTH POLAR. SEAS

AUSTRALIAN BASE AT MACQUARIE ISLAND (PA.) AUCKLAND. March 21. From the fringe of the south Polar leas, nearly 600 miles south of New Zealand, regular meteorological observations have been flashed to the Dominion weather offices in the last few days from two Australian scientific ships which are to establish a permanent base on Macquarie Island. Except for occasional information from whalers, little is known of weather movements in the far south, the most distant station being the New Zealand observatory at Campbell Island, dzu miles south of Stewart Island. The new base will provide invaluable reports about weather fronts above the Polar icecaps continent Two Japanese whaling ships whten . for the last few months have been as far distant as latitude 65 degrees soutri, are now on their way home with their season’s catch. The two ships tne Nissin Maru and the Hashidate Maru, have regularly advised t New Zealand weather offices of meteorological information. The Hashidate Maru is now off the Queensland coast, with the Nissin Maru a few days’ steaming astern.