METEOROLOGY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6383, 4 December 1907, Page 11

METEOROLOGY.

A FEDERAL J)KJA\HTMBNT

AfU>r Non- Yeur's Diiy tho various Australian Shite moleoroloiKiNls wdl to exist, ait sue.b, and the meteorological hranehe.; IV! il lie n;er(.o"d into one (.Tent, service under the Commonr/eudlli. Tlu> Chief .Meteorologist vviU be stationed in Melbourne. The tune between now iind .Nc’.v Year is to be hd-en it p in visitin'. 1 ; the various ole /ervin£ stations in Ihe State:;, and one r>f the ex fleets of the department is now in Queensland, lie Inis visited the fn.r-northere, stations in that State sald is workimr his way south. Souta Australia, Western Australia, and 'fas mania into also to he visited, and the ftb.sorvi'ne stations inspected, now initniments heir:;?; supplied where required Bind old ones heintf put into proper aider.

The f rohnhie method of carrying nut tho work of the department will he to issue all forecast-; from the head oilien hi Melbourne, (xifiies bniug sent to the provisional officers in each Sta-e, These offioom. will have dinireU.im.ry power to revise ami alter them to nicer local conditions. WmiUie.r eharts will also he jnsuod ns required. Tower will he given to divisional oflieers to distrilmte copies of the forecasts to n.p--|dirii.nls, aml as they will ha doumle-'i-wl from I .ho head oilier shout noon ( n each day, and will reach Hie Stales early in tho afternoon, there 'i" plenty of time to make copier;. The ebaugo will ees-ore uuitormity of method, and as under the present syestem ts.e.h Stale ineUorologist ran hi< wenthe. bureau on the lines laid down lor him hy the State, there will h- Unit much adva.iif.a.iro in Mu' change. Ocean forecasts will also he issued, and in the event of storms rapine; mm- to or appioaohimr Australia earnings wi'l no issued. A book of instructions in now brim; drawn no, and will lie published in doe course.