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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1921, Page 3

Ml- clement Wragge, meteorologist, whose w eal her prophecies are wellbnmvo. maintains tlrat tlie present unseasonable -.(ate of ibe weather is due In elect i n-magnetie activit yin the sun. Mr Wracge. who is on a visit to Taranaki. suggests that electro-magnetic fni-ces of great potency are evidently alfeet-ing the sun. in that, although the solar minimum should .now prevail, further cj,antic eruptions anti up-li'-els a-e in ill-ogress in the sun’s at-,.,,.<,,bi.|-cs. Tin- measurements, lie said

r'.,ii,.;,l,.|..||,’|y exceed “O.tHlO miles in diameter cadi. and as they hurst out with sod, lerriti. fury thev set ill moti„n wireless waves which undoubtedly 1,,.,M1,aril the earth and produce ahnor teals in our seasons. I" the sun s uu,v|. i ( - power at tli is time must |.. attributed in these latitudes, the i-neeiil rains at a time when, in t in l of events, the rainfall should have fallen off. The same nma'l.s a only to Australia in a. more marked decree. In discussing the matter with a pn ssinati. Mr Wragge added- “The present, solar disturbance , a'n he vi- we-1 with - nly moderate c.pti ,a! aid. hot especial care should he taken to esp (lark glass over the teles..ye niei - one heavily smoked as otherwise the sight might he seriously impaired. A piece of smoked glass however, should h» siiltieienl, for those whose eyesight is keen.’