WEATHER PROPHETS IN COURT.
Mr D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, has lodged a protest against the treatment to which meteorologist observers are frequently subjected' when called as witnesses in legal actions, says the '‘Past.” He said that there was an increasing tendency to introduce expert evidence regarding weather conditions when legal suits have this .element introduced. He could not understand why solicitors should endeavour to question the reliability of the evidence. In his opinion, the treatment to which some of liis observers had been subjected was attributable only to the impudence due to ignorance. Mr Bates "suggests that evidence of meteorological observers on facts extracted from thier records should he aeeeepted as a < ■ert ifw ‘d statement.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5349, 4 February 1916, Page 7
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117WEATHER PROPHETS IN COURT. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5349, 4 February 1916, Page 7
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