OUTSPOKEN FARMERS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13180, 12 February 1936, Page 4

OUTSPOKEN FARMERS.

WEATHER OFFICE RATED. REQUEST FOR REORGANISATION Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. “That in view ot the misleading weather reports published daily in the Press which can only be classed as dead reckonings or rule ot thumb, we request that the Meteorological Department be reorganised.” This remit was moved by Mr T. D. Bathgate (Kaipara) at a meeting of the provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union to-day. He said that for the last few months the forecast had been mostly ‘‘scattered showers.” _ When these were published one could look forward to a deluge. The first warning of the leceut storm, he said, was a fall of the barometer. In his district 300 or 400 pigs and sheep had been lost. With a warning they might have been removed to safe ground. Mr J. H. Furniss said that several lives were lost because no warning was given. An amendment moved by Air A. B. Moore that the Government be requested to place larger financial resources at the disposal of the Meteorological Department lapsed for want of a seconder, and the remit was adopted in the following form: ‘That this meeting requests that the Government Meteorological Department be reorganised.”