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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 6

A proposal to establish at Auckland University College a station for recording the intensity of cosmic rays was brought before the Auckland University College Council by Professor P. W. Burbidge. who sought leave to install on the roof of the science building an instrument provided by the Carnegie Institution, which would bear all the expense of installation and upkeep (states the “ New eZaland Herald”). In reply to a question, the president (Mr Kenneth Mackenzie) said he understood that the instrument, which was now being made in the United States, would occupy very little space. He believed it was practically automatic, and the only work required of any member of the staff would be to change the record sheets and forward them to America. The Carnegie Institution was establishing stations in many parts of the world with the object of obtaining and collecting data. As the college was indebted to the Carnegie trustees in many ways, he felt that every effort should be made to carry out the request. The matter was left in the hands of the president, with power to act.