RADIOSONDE STATION FOR CHATHAMS
AID IN FORECASTING WEATHER (From Our Parliamentary Reporter)
WELLINGTON, August 20. The Cabinet has approved, in principle, the installation of a radiosonde itation on the Chatham Islands, and has authorised the purchase of the necessary ground equipment, said the Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr T. L Macdonald), today. "The station is expected to be most useful for obtaining information about the weather system that has moved off New Zealand to the east, and it is hoped that this information will permit a further improvement in weather forecasting," said Mr Macdonald.
A radiosonde station on the Chathams was recommended by the Pacific Regional Association of the World Meteorological Organisation, which is responsible for seeing that meteorological stations are • co-ordinated and properly distributed. In the New Zealand area there are now upper air. stations*—radiosonde or radar wind—at Invercargill, Harewood. Ohakea, Auckland. Raoul Island, and Nandi (Fiji), and to complete the network stations would have to be provided at Campbell Island and at Rarotonga. besides the one now approved for the Chatham Islands, said Mr Macdonald.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27434, 21 August 1954, Page 6
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