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METEOROLOGIST DIRECTOR DR. M. A. F. BARNETT APPOINTED By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday The appointment of Dr. M. A. F. Barnett as director of the Meteorological Office in succession to the late Dr. E. Kidson was announced this evening by tbe Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. -Dr. Barnett has recently occupied the position of senior meteorologist in the Meteorological Office and has been particularly concerned with those aspects of meteorology affecting aviation. Dr. Barnett, who is a New* Zealander, obtained his degree of M.Sc. at Otago University in 1924 with first-class honours in electricity, magnetism and. mathematics. He afterwards proceeded to Clare College. Cambridge, -and in 1925 won the Denham Baynes Research Studentship.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20833, 17 June 1939, Page 9
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