BRITISH AIRSHIPS MISSION

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 296, 13 September 1927, Page 8

BRITISH AIRSHIPS MISSION

METEOROLOGICAL ASPECT OF SERVICES

Dominion Special Service.

Auckland, September 12.

Mr. M. A. Giblett, superintendent of the British Meteorological Office and superintendent of airship meteorology in England, returned to Auckland by the Limited express-from Wellington this' morning, leaving Group-Captain P. F. M.- Fellowes, the leader, and Flight-Lieut. S. Nixon, of the Imperial Airships Mission, in the south.

Mr. Giblett stated that his stay in New Zealand, although of brief duration, had been most interesting and profitable to him. He spent most of his time at Wellington with Dr. E. Kidson, the Government Meteorologist, going deeply into the question of how the conditions varied so as to select the best possible site for a mooring tower and airship base. “I cannot tell you yet where the site for the base >will be, as our report has been handed to the Prime Minister,” said Mr. Giblett He added that he went carefully into the organisation required in New Zealand if the Government became a party to the scheme. Dr. Kidson had been left completed details of the England to India airships, so that they could be adapted to the conditions in the Dominion to build up a similar organisation.