MACQUARRIE ISLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 100, 3 December 1915, Page 2

MACQUARRIE ISLAND.

WIRELESS STATION CLOSED.

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Wellington, December 2

For the time being no mure meteorological repol-ts will he received in New Zealand from Maeqnarrie Island. The wireless station, which was established by Sir Douglas Maw,son as a branch of his Antarctic expedition, and was subsequently taken over by the Commonwealth Government and the Dominion Meteorologist reported yesterday that the station had been closed temporarily, the final message having been received on Wednesday.

It appears that the Commomvealth Weather Bureau at Melbourne has sent away about ten members of its staff in connection with the war, and is unable any longer to spare the skilled meteorologist who lias been stationed on Macquarrie Island. New Zealand has contributed towards the support of the station, which has proved of the utmost importance in the investigation of weather conditions in the southern hemisphere, and for this reason it is considered to bp rather a pity that the station has to lie closed at the present time, especially, as Sir Ernest Shaokleton’s Expedition is still in the South, and the Macquarrie Island plant would have been a most important link in . co-ordinating Antarctic conditions with those experienced in lower latitudes.

Messages first began to lie transmitted to Wellington from the Island on March 12. 1912.