Weather Prophet’s Experiences

Northern Advocate, 31 January 1939, Page 4

Weather Prophet’s Experiences

INVERCARGILL, This Day,

Scientific discussions are not always the dry-,as-dust affairs that, the layman supposes. Although many weighty problems were discussed by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of .Science at the bi-annual congress held recently in Canberra, ,an attempt to give an explanation or an excuse for the abnormal weather experienced recently in Australia and New Zealand enlivened the proceedings. “A paper by Mr. Inigo Jones, provided the most controversy,” said Dr. C. M. Focken, Lecturer in Physics at Otago University, who returned by the Maunganui. 4 “Other scientists were somewhat chary about accepting the views expressed by the Queensland meteorologist, and Sir George Simpson, head of the British Meteorological Office, I asked him to put them forward in ; scientific terms. j Mr. Jones prophesied that thqre j would be heavy rain while the confer- j ence was in session, btlt, alas, he j proved a false prophet. I