New Weather Reporting Equipment On Raoul
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 16. The installation of new equipment at the meteorological station at Raoul, Sunday Island, the largest of the Kermadec Group, has been completed. A Government engineer, Mr. G. Pulley,. who has been engaged on this work for nearly a year, returned on the Maui Pomare this morning. ' Raoul, 600 miles north-east of New Zealand, is the only weather station between Auckland and Suva. Mr. Pulley said the station was started during the last war when so many aircraft were flying over the Pacific. Raoul was now an important link in the chain of air route bases. Fourteen white men maintained the _ station, assisted by a number of Niue islanders and reports were radioed frequently in the Weather Office in Wellington.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 3
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