BATES, BAROMETERS AND ISOBARS

NZ Truth, Issue 1105, 3 February 1927, Page 4

BATES, BAROMETERS AND ISOBARS

TT is characteristic of human nature when things go wrong to Jokjora 1 o^eXgT^ " J3&Z goMiis bulletins telling us whether rain or skies of azure blue shall be our ' Ot °He*R t!S r SSt incorruptible of public servants. No bribe or supplication can move him to produce the blue sky or soft zephyrs you have so set of Sir Oracle. Multitudes turn with eager anticipation to his daily pronouncements. ■' . „ , . He is by no means a hard-hearted man. Actually, he carries all the outward appearances of a kindly and benevolent professor. He would _be more than content to be the dispenser of sunshine and not merely the skilled reader of the unruly. elements. . ;." . He has no heart to inflict his fellow mortals^with atrocious weather; rather, would he plentifully suffuse their lives with sunshine. •_ D. C. Bates first saw the light m Old England. He was ordained m the Anglican Ministry and was at one time Vicar of Bluff. _ . He is a man of many parts. While engaged m his clerical calling, he* made a hobby of such widely separated studies as meteorology and zoology. He was also keenly interested m volunteering. \He took part m the South African War as Chaplain of the 9th New, Zealand contingent. His bent for zoology [Found an outlet m an enthusiastic advocacy of the Wellington Zoo. He was' one of the originators of that popular and occasionally maligned institution! . ,