WEATHER WARNINGS
Australia Guards Against Cyclones WO radio operators, A. W. Hooper and Murray Ewen, together with John Sammons, weather observer, returned to Sydney recently after twelve months spent at a wireless station on Willis Island, a tiny sand-spit 350 miles off the coast of North Queensland. Interviewed on his return, Mr. Hooper said that during the year they had been able to send warnings of six cyclones which struck the coast of Queensland. Since the establishment of the wireless station in 1921, said Mr. Hooper, no ship equipped with radio had been lost in a cyclone on the Queensland coast. Many small luggers, however, had been wrecked simply because they had no means of receiving the 24 hours’ warning usually given of an approaching cyclone,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 15
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126WEATHER WARNINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 15
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