The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916. THE WEATHER CORPS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1656, 30 December 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916. THE WEATHER CORPS.

STRIKING evidence of llu* ('lose conned ion between weather mul the operations of war is contained in the eleventh annual report of the British Meteorological Committee' for the .year ended March 31st, The report states that during' the year the staff of all departments of the office was fully occupied in supplying 1 information in reply to inquiries from the various departments of the Admiralty and the War Office. “The results of meteorological inquiries initiated in what appeared to be the remote interest of the theory of the circulation of the atmosphere have turned out to have important practical bearings, and collections of statistics compiled in the ordinarv course of meteorological duty have now come in most usefully to meet urgent requirements. A separate unit of the Koval Engineers has," says the report, “been created for meteorological service in the held. The service with the Expeditionary Force in France is under the command of Major Gold, one of the superintendents of division in (he office, and that with the force in the Eastern Mediterranean under Captain F. M. Wedderburn, lion, secretary of the .Scottish Meteorological Society, who ottered his services to the office. With him is Lieutenant E. Kidson, a graduate of Canterbury College, New Zealand, who had jfisfinguished himself as magnetician in the service of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and came to this country to offer Ins soi" ices. In view of the importance of co-ordinating the experience of Hying officers with the work of the office and observatories in order to obtain more effective knowledge of the structure of the atmosphere for use of the air services, the committee represented to the director of military aeronautics the desirability of appointing a professor of meteorology to the Royal Flying Corps (with the rank of major during the war). The director of military aeronautics concurred, and the Army Council approved the appointment of Lieutenant G. J. Taylor, R.F.C., to that office.”