NEW WEATHER REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20088, 27 October 1928, Page 12

NEW WEATHER REPORTS.

WELLINGTON BROADCAST. CHANGE IN SYSTEM NEXT WEEK. [BY TELEGRAM. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON. Friday. An extension of the functions of the meteorological branch of the Department of Scientific and of Industrial Research will take effect next week. The director of the Government meteorological office, Dr. E. stated that starting 0:1 November 1 a change will be made in the system of broadcasting weather reports. The broadcast from the Auckland radio station will be dropped, but a more extensive report will be issued at 9 p.m. (standard time) from die Wellington radio station.

This issue, in addition to the forecast and summary, as now transmitted, will include reports of 'the conditions at. 4 p.m. at 13 New Zealand stations, Norfolk Island, - the Chatham Islands, Sydney and Hobart. Not only will more precise information of the conditions over the whole area be available, but the reports given will be sufficient to enable a satisfactory weather chart to be drawn. Thus anyone with an elementary knowledge of meteorology will bo able to supplement the official forecast and understand more fully the subsequent changes. Forms have been prepared which will facilitate the taking-down of the reports as received, while the map on the back of flio form will enable anyone so desiring to plot them and draw the weather chart.