POLAR WEATHER STATIONS
(9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 23. Polar weather data, properly interpreted, could have warned Britain of the approach of the current exceptionally severe winter, and timely preparations could have been made, according to Dr. Paul Siple, a senior War Department expert who went with Admiral R. E. Byrd’s relief expedition to the Antarctic.
Dr. Siple says that Polar meterolog'ica! stations would warn farmers when a cycle of lean years could be expected, thus enabling grain storage plans to be made well ahead,.
He envisages using New Zealand as a base from where long-range planes could be used to low gliders containing equipment and supplies to weather stations in the* Antarctic. A chain ,ol Antarctic weather stations would bring immeasurable benefits to mankind everywhere.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5
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