SURVEYS OF WEATHER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 9 December 1937, Page 11

SURVEYS OF WEATHER

SOUTH PACIFIC AREA HELP TO AVIATION SHIPPING AND FARMING (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The immediate expansion of the meteorological"services for the assistance " of* '--aviation in* - the south-west Pacific by the establishment of additional reporting stations and the receipt of ■ more frequent and specialised reports from stations, aircraft, and shipping observers and progressively more effective co-relation of the "meteorological services of the •whole of the Pacific are proposed in resolutions and recommendations adopted at the south-west Pacific regional meteoroldgical' conference which sat in Wellington last week. There is full confidence that the present serious handicaps "to meteorological wQjls: in "this region will be largely removed and the' services of several countries made effective as regards overseas aviation and also much more complete as regards general forecasts within the areas of the contributing countries and for the particular national services for internal-air lines, shipping and farming. A basic resolution laid down the principle that the meteorological services for trans-oceanic aviation cannot be undertaken without adequate facilities for radiq communication, that commercial cable services cannot meet the requirements of such services, and that provision must be made for point-to-point communication between the terminals. The proriosals are for the arrangement of broadcasts of the more detailed reports in specified order, and that 'five issues of a national or continental type shall be made "at fixed hours daily from the Netherlands" East ' Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Samoa, "and that further one international collective issue shall be made at fixed hours as from the south-west Pacific region as a whole, preferably from a station in Australia.' If the proposals of the conference can be put into'effect, the area surveyed will cover a great part of the southern hemisphere and link up with the northern hemisphere services, making possible a correlated study of weather data from above and below the equator. Suggestions are advanced for the receipt of reports from additional points, with emphasis on the Kermadees.'r Ships reports' gre' also" stressed.