MAGNETIC SURVEY IN PACIFIC
POSSIBLE USE OF AIRCRAFT
Considerable pressure was being brought to bear on the Magnetic Survey by such organisations as the Admiralty. the United States Navy, and the International Civil Aviation Organisation to have a complete magnetic survey made of the South Pacific area, said the director of the survey (Mr H. F. Baird) yesterday. Mr Baird left for Wellington last night to see it a suitable programme of observations could be arranged by use of aircraft. Arrangements had been made for a member of the Magnetic Survey staff to sail with H.M.N.Z.S. Kaniere to do magnetic observations on Pacific islands, but this had to be dropped at the last minute because there was no room in the ship, said Mr Baird. “On some of these islands no magnetic observations have been made since 1915. and charts are consequently not soundly based on observational data. The position has become worse since the non-magnetic ship Carnegie exploded in Apia in December. 1929. “Under its obligations to the International Civil Aviation Organisation the New Zealand Government is responsible for charting all that area between 20 degrees north of the equator and 60 degrees south, and from Sydney in the west to Tahiti in. the east.” said Mr Baird.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26517, 4 September 1951, Page 8
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