THE WEATHER OFFICE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 6

THE WEATHER OFFICE

OFf, KIDSON'S CAREER

MWVA/, EARLY IN AUGUST

A v t'ftifiisit announcement confirms i'ti'i upiirii-til/ncnl, reported in yester-rtfr-y's "tom," ot Vr. E. Kidson, assistHiMiifMl'ir of the Australian McteoroUt&/>.s4i K*.n-ir>.>:, a* head of the New '/,«i,)n,:ii }At-i»,',nA<wr.a.\ Office. The pre- .<*.-«(. (ii.v>irt>m t :n\ MeUorologint (Mr. D. «,, ;.«!,<;*) !=• to prepare publications tin tit*. »rl<mat'ilo{f/ of the Dominion, ffw/f f^Af/Js of the past, Mr. Kidgon in t;aii>'.i:U:,\ to taUn charge of the MeteoK,UittU:zl Onif.'i <::xTly in August. f/r, KUh'iu h'tloitjin to a well-known *<irls///i-/,'!iri.<;t».-hureh family and i» a »««,(>.,* „,' Mr. U. P. KWjwb, M.A., KM-.., \ir>n<:\\<:<,\ of th<j Jlutt Valk-v Mich Mm;\, Mr. 0. K. Kidwn, head-r/<-'>=:i»-r wf Itic Kelburn formal IvhooL nmi Mr. If. 'f. Kidson, KeUon KospiUil JJuarrt. ii<; wan educated at 2?*l«<>a Oittfjitt, Ci/mtchurch' Boys' high Hchoul, and Canterbury C?Heg& ile

won in succession a junior and a senior national scholarship and was awarded tho degree of M.Be. (Ne\r Zealand University) With first-clasH honours in physics iv 1904. He completed the honours course in mathematics and was awarded tho dogroe of D.Se. by the University of Now Zealnnd, for researches on meteorology. In 1905 he was appointed as Assistant-Magnetic Observer, Christchurch, under tho Department of Lands and Survey. In 1908 he joined the staff of tho Carnogio Ihstituto of Washington, and until 1914 worked on magnetic surveys in South America, Newfoundland, at sea, and in Australia. During his two years at sea on tho Carttogio he made the observations for tho navigation of the Vessel. From 1!>15 to 1919 ho wag on active sorvlcd with the motoorologlcal Section of tho Eoyal Engineers. Ho developed the forecasting service and application ot .meteorology to gunnery for the Salonika Forces, and for his successful work was mentioned in dispatches and awarded tho 0.8. E. In 1919 Dr. Kidson was appointod to the Wathoroo Observatory, Western Australia, and in ■10*1, as Supervising Meteorologist and Assistant-Director of the Commonwealth Motcoiologioal Service, which position ho at present holds. He was tho representative of tho Koyal Society of Victoria at tho mooting hold in Wellington in 1923 of tho Association of the Advancement of Science in Australasia.

Dr. Kldson is a Follow of the Instituto ot Physics, and a member of tho Australian National fteßearch Council, and has published numerous Original papers on meteorology, with particular reforonco to mothods of forecasting and to tho use of inotoorological observations of the upper atmosphero for tho übo of aviators, while hb was specially soloctod to write up critical studios o"f tho inotoorological reaulU oi tho first Blmckletoli and tho Mawson Antarotio expeditions.