WEATHER FORECASTING
NE.ED OF REPORTS I^ROM ISLANDS.
The fact that the centre of a weather ■disturbance to the north of New Zealand ■wai in the. vicinity of the ICermadec Islands, prompted Mr. D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, to mention, when speaking to a. Post reporter to-tlay, the value of reports from outlying islands. '•If the day comes," he said, "when wo are ablo..tb Jiavo wireless reports from the Kermadeo Islands, it will bo of infinito value to this country." At the present time" there wcro no people living on tho .islands, but when Mr. Bates was in London. three years ago, he had inquiries, through tha High Coriimissioner'B Office, from people who wanted to settle on the islands. A meteorological observatory was more deairabfe there, ho said, than at the Maoquari© Islands, although,_ for international purposes, the Macquaries were of great scientific intorost. There was a meteorological observatory and radio station -down there prior to tho war, and it had been of much ;i«sieluncc as far aa southerly winds were concerned.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1922, Page 8
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171WEATHER FORECASTING Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1922, Page 8
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