CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 24 June 1911, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

MR HOCC EXPLAINS. [To The Editor.} Sir, — I notice that you credit me with astonishing the school children by telling them that the Coronation they were'celebrating was performed in Great Britain when most of them were sound asleep, aaid you add that I was twwity-four hours ahead of things. Seeing tliat the earth is round, a;nd New Zealand is almost exactly opposite the 03d Country, it is obvious that our difference in time must be about twelve and not twenty-four hours, and that when it is or noon with us it is midnight in Great Britain. To be accurate, I find that exactly at noon of Greenwich mean time it is 11.4«| p.m. in Wellington. ■ I certainly was not aware that the diurnal revolutions of the earth had changed, and that New Zealand was many hours ahead instead of being behind the Old Country. Let me thank you for your discovery, and recommend that it, be brought before the New Zealand Institute as "early as possible.—l am, etc., A. W. HOGG. . 2ard June, 1911. (Most people were under the impression that Ma- Hogg had made* just .a little slip. -It appears;,, however, to have been a very big one. He should bring the discovery before the Third Standard of the District High School, and not before the Institute. Had Ave not been ahead of. ..Great Britain,, we should -have had the cabled accounts ofthe Coronation, ' procession in time for Ma* Hogg to interest the youngsters with a description of New Zealand's triumhal arch, and the Ward medallion, and other little details. The question of the number of hours is neither here nor there.— Ed. Age.)