SERVICE TO AIRCRAFT

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 August 1935, Page 5

SERVICE TO AIRCRAFT

Chain of Imperial Meteorological Stations Planned BROADCAST INFORMATION WEATHER EXPERTS MEET (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON. Aug. 21.

Plans for a chain ot meteorological stations for all Imperial air routes were among the topics discussed at a private conference in London, “It is hoped that we shall have a chain of services from London to A us-, tralia, South Africa and Canada,” said Sir George Simpson, director of the meteorological office. “After the*conference all services must work to a uniform system-” Aeroplanes are going to fly by night and day, he added, and their safety will depend largely on help from meteorological stations. It was proposed to broadcast information from high-power wireless stations at Rugby. Arlington, Sydney, Tokio, Cairo and Moscow.

The conference recommended the establishment of an ocean observatory station at Tistan d’Acunha and an Arctic meteorological station at Chesterfield inlet, Hudson Bay. The latter would be about 400 miles from the north magnetic pole.