AID TO FLYERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 7

AID TO FLYERS

IMPERIAL AIR ROUTES CHAIN OF WEATHER OFFICES LONDON, Aug. 21. Plan? for a chain of meteorological stations on all Imperial air routes were among the topics discussed by Empire weather experts at a private confereuce iu Loudon. “It is hoped that we shall have a chain of services from London to Australia, South Africa, and Canada,” said Sir George Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, after the conference. “All the services must work to a uniform system. ‘‘Aeroplanes are going to fly by night as well as by day,” he continued, “and. their safety will depend largely upon help from meteorological stations. It is proposed to broadcast information from high-power wirelea« stations at Rugby, Arlington, Sydney, Tokio, Cairo, and Moscow.” The conference recommended the establishment of an ocean observatory at Tristan da Cunha and an arctic meteorological station at Chesterfield Inlet, Hudson Bay. The latter will be about 400 miles from the nci’th magnetic nolo