HECTOR OBSERVATORY, WELLINGTON
CnROXOJIETER-ItATING NOTICE. A galvanometer sisnal for ratine chronometers will bo sent from the Observatory at noon to-day to the Museum and to tlie Public Telegraph Office. The needle will movo at noon exactly of New Zealand mean time, at which hour a chronometer set to Greenwich mean timfl should show 12h. 30m. Any difference will be the error of the chronometer, fast, or slow, on Greenwich mean time. True time will be similarly signalled at each hour .of the day,
0. E. ADAMS, Astronomical Observer. Dominion Museum, May 13, 1911.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 7
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93HECTOR OBSERVATORY, WELLINGTON Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 7
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