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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 18

Instancing the extent to which weather forecasts were used in the United States of America. Dr R, G Simmers, a member of the staff of the Dominion Observatory, Wellington, who has recently returned from a two years’ visit to America, told a Palmerston North audience recently that department stores paid for special forecasts, so that they would know how much steam they would have to get up to heat their buildings the next day Restaurants wanted to know what the next day’s weather would be so that they could decide whether tlm people would be requiring a hot or a cold pudding. Jt was worth their while the speaker said, to pay for the service. All Classes ot Goods can be Exchanged through Otago Daily Times advertising. Even if you can’t buy. you may be able to “ trade " what you have for what you want Sixteen words for a shilling, three consecutive insertions for half-a-crown.