WEATHER BROADCASTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 16

WEATHER BROADCASTS

AID FOR FARMERS REGULAR REPORTS A special weather report is being sent out every afternoon for the benefit of the farming community, says the "Radio Record.” Till the end of the year this forecast will be broadcast daily from 2YA (except on Sundays and Wednesdays) at 3.30 p.m. (4 p.m. summer time), while on Wednesdays it. will be broadcast from each of the other stations at 4 p.m. (4.30 summer time). Recognising the importance which farmers place on weather reports, the Meteorological Office, of which Dr. Kidson is the director, is co-operating whole-heartedly with the Broadcasting Company in this service to the man on the land. This was demonstrated during the last harvesting season in Canterbury, when a midday report was supplied to and broadcast by 3YA. Similarly, during the present lambing and shearing seasons, an afternoon report has been specially prepared and must be proving of great value to farmers. Few occupations, if any, arq so much at the mercy of the weather as ihat of the farmer. He cannot coni rol or alter the weather that he gets, i either can he escape from it by movig his fields to more favoured situai!ona. His task, therefore, and that of those whose business it is to assist him, is to arrange his affairs so as to -lake the best use of the weather that be will get. With good forecasts, operations at the farm can be planned from day to day to the best advantage. He can decide, for instance, whether hay or ''orn harvesting shall be begun, or hay or corn carried, whether the farm bands shall be employed in field work or indoor work. It is because such forecasts can be, and are, of great value to farmers that meteorologists all over the world have striven to establish and to continually improve organisations for preparing and distributing them.