WEATHER FORECASTS.
pir-l never cease to be astonisned on picking up The Listener each week to find that, so far, apparently no one has written to protest against this North Island preference in weather forecasts. "This is the Weather Office." This cheery announcement pricks my ears, and those of probably thousands of others, but I have yet to meet the man living south of 41 degrees latitude who has succeeded in enduring the tedious rigmarole starting -at Auckland down through National Park-Taihape to Well* ington. My own experience has been that I collect my wits just in time each
morning or evening to hear the forecast for the Chatham Islands. In fact I am possibly one of the :best-informed radio listeners on the subject of the weather over the Chathams. North Island preference for ‘Empire Games; North ,Island preference for Tourist Publicity, and. maybe for an Overseas Air Terminal: it would be refreshing to have a small’ ‘preference for the South Island-even if only in the matter of weather forecasts. When I was in the Army we had to line up for pay in alphabetical order. Every now and again the Sergeant-Major, to the delight of the Williamsons, Wilsons and Watsons, and the chagrin of the Abbotts, Andersons, and Arbuthnots, would give us the order "About turn," and we would be paid starting at the other end. Now then, couldn’t the same principle be applied to the weather forecasts? Auckland first one day, and the Chathams first the next. What about it?
NIB-NAB
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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254WEATHER FORECASTS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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