HURRICANES PREDICTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1917, Page 2

HURRICANES PREDICTED.

EFFECT ON NEW ZEALAND. The following- forecast of weather for tie next four mouths is supplied by VI r. Clement L Wragge: ''There is every indication that within .'lie next four months hurricanes and heavy winds with much :ain will lie in evidence, ''Specially over the Western Pacific Islands. including also Lord Howe and Xor/olk Islands and tli» Kerinadi'C group. The southern sides of these disturbances will attest also North Auckland. The hurricane season also promises to lie proiiouncul a loiter the east coast of Australia, b'tween Smoky Capr. Cape Morcton. Sandy Cape, Cape Capricorn, Mackay, Towi.sville, Cairns, and Cnoktown, inflnenciii;; even waters south from Sydney, anil captains of vessels should take every precaution. Fnrilier heavy rains in connection with Veal winds are Pkely :n Australia. Tasmania, and New Zealand, and such in accordance with my forecast of increasing fainfall given -iv years ago. "Cosmic factors, which there is no 'lenying are operating, an.! mightly upheavals are in progress in tie sun, which produce wireless vibrations under which ■Jie whole solar system responds. People who imagine that the.gun-firing in Knrepe is the main factor are decidedly mistaken. Such can be likened to a lad throwing a stone into a little poo! when compared with the titanic ether waves ,-ast off by the sun in its existing physical condition."