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'x:(: : ; : : ■'~ '■'~".»....';.' '. l; ' J " '. Mr. Douglai'Archibald, a disiinguishe'o! . English'meteorologist, and chief 'expdiielit' in England off Professor,' Bruckner's we'll- -. -.■':■ known;3s-year6'/weather* tycle, <is a -.pas? \ ' : senger to Auckland by-,the ;P. and ■ O,■": ', liner Maloja, which Jeft. Sydney on,'Mon> . day (states a Press Association cablo'nics- - Ho is on,.his-way ;to Rotorua.'to recruit his heilth, after twelve, years', eon- • tiuuous work at threo-day, i)erj'od forecnsla of British weather for the principal news-, papers -of. the .United, Kingdom. .Mr. ,-; • Archibald,'who was theni a profesfor in the University" of Calcutta, riiado a ■study.: of;meteorology in India, and in 18?6 rtis-: , ; covered laws relating to tlio Opposition ,b?. : '. '■;'■< tween the winter and summer rainfall of:"' Northern India. -. Last'.year he was:boil- ■ ; suited 1 by tho Commonwealth authorities ■'. " ; in London regarding forecasts' of impend- '■■■' '.' ing droughts, .which had appeared in the .. - ; pTess throughout i. Australia, and which ~'■■; wore based an the.sun-spot, lunar, and ,- ' planatorr theory. Air.' Avchibald then gave to Mr. H. A. Hunt, the ComniMi; •.*:/■ ■■; wealth meteorologist, his views .on,tho.-'.;-. • subject, and-indicated that, under j the ! Bruckner,theory of SS-years* weather cycle' • | the maximum.period of rainfall was, now, 1 - . : ! : about tobegin.' ll ' ■.■' -'- : ;-; , ''.;,''.;• •■-.:':''':
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 15 January 1913, Page 6
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