THE SOLAR OBSERVATORY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 317, 31 May 1913, Page 5

THE SOLAR OBSERVATORY.

A REPORT DENIED. "" By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Friday, in reference to a telegram stating that Mr. Cawthron had been approached to induce him t 0 change the site for the solar physics observatory from Nelson to Wellington, Miss Mary Proctor states there is absolutely no foundation for the rumor. She is in daily correspondence with Mr. Gibbs, president of the Nelson Institute, who is tiie representative of Mr. Crrvftho'rn, and from his letters she finds that all arrangements are going on on the basis originally intended. Miss Proctor adds that "from her knowledge of Mr. Cawthron she is there were never any grounds for the belief that lie was likely to change his Jrnnd, or even that he had been asked to do so.- A committee composed of four members Of the astronomical branch 'of "the Phil'osopliical Society of Wellington, Professor Adams, the Government ,%trono«i«r;'Dr. Hector, the Rev. Father Kennedy, and Professor Laby had been holding meetings to settle data necessary for the proposed Cawthron solar observatory, and their report would soon hq