PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 11

PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

STUDY OF WEATHER

AUCKLAND RADIO STATION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND,. May 2.

. The last member of the staff of PanAmerican Airways in Auckland of the party which came to New Zealand from the United' States late last year, Mr: W. T. Jarboe, jun., will leave for Honolulu by" the Monterey. tomorrow. The radio station in ..Auckland, of which Mr. Jarboe has been In charge will.not be closed, nowever, as the company has engaged a riew: Zealand operator, Mr. K. Edwards, of Wellington, who will remain at the company's temporary headquarters. . The New Zealand operator has been engaged' permanently. His duties in the- immediate, future will consist solely of handling, meteorological information which is being forwarded to Pago Pago for use in conjunction with reports from various Pacific islands to enable the company's meteorologists to make a detailed study of South Pacific weather. This is a necessary preliminary to inaugurating any air service and is likely to extend over severs! months. ■ . ' '

With the return of Mr. Jarboe to the company's operational headquarters at Alameda, California, there wiJl begin a series of conferences concerning the practicability- of the proposed air service to New Zealand and the presentation of information gathered here and at other proposed ports of cail along the route ty the various, experts connected with the survey flight. V