WEATHER REPORTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144853, 3 December 1915, Page 2

WEATHER REPORTS.

MACQU AERIES STATION ABANDONED. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. . WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. For the time being no more meteorological reports will be received in New Zealand from Macquarrie Island. The wireless station, which was .established, by Sir Douglas Mawson as a branch of his Antarctic expedition, and was subsequently taken over by the Commonwealth. Government, and the Dominion. Meteorologist reported yesterday that •the station had been closed temporarily, the final message having been received un ‘Wednesday.

It appears that the Commonwealth Weather Bureau at Melbourne has sent away about ten members of its staff in connection with the war, and is unable anv longer to spare the skilled meteorologist who has been stationed on; Macquarrie Island. '

Now Zealand has contributed towards the support of the station, which has proved of the utmost importance in the investigation of weather conditions in the southern hemisphere, and for this reason it is considered to be rather a pity that the station has to. b© closed at the present time, especially as Sir Ernest Sbackletdn’s expedition is still in tho south, and the Macquarrie Island plant would have been a most important link in co-ordinating Antarctic conditions with those experienced in loweij latitudes.

Messages first began to b© transmitted to Wellington from the island on March 12, 1912.