MACQUARIE ISLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17030, 3 December 1915, Page 9

MACQUARIE ISLAND.

"WIRELESS STATION CLOSED. [Pur Truss Association.] WELLINGTON, December 2. For the time being no more meteorological reports will be received in New Zealand from Macquarie Island wireless station, which was established by Sir Douglas Mawson as a branch of bis Antarctic expedition and subsequently taken over by the Commonwealth Government The Dominion meteorologist reported to-day that ( tho station had been closed temporarily, the final niossago having been received on Wednesday. It appears that the Commonwealth Weather Bureau at Melbourne lias sent away about ten members of its staff in connection with tile war and is unable any longer to spare the skilled meteorologist who has been stationed on Macquarie Island. New Zealand has contributed towards the support of the station, which has proved of the utmost importance in the investigation of weather conditions in the, southern hemisphere. For this reason it is considered to lie a pity that'the sitatioi< has to be closed at the present time, especialiy as Sir Ernest Shackloton's expedition is still in tlm south and the Macquarie Island plant would have been a most important- link in co-ordin-ating Antarctic conditions with those experienced in lower latitudes. Messages first began to bo transmitted to Wellington from the island on March 12* 191»-