Weather Reports

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 41, 24 April 1931, Page 5

Weather Reports

Value, to Shipping 'TOWNSFOLK sometimes grow impatient when listening to the details of the weather-r@port as broadcast by -2YA, but throughout New Zealand, esIp pecially in the country districts, the information thus given is greatly valued. An indication of its importance to shipping can be gained from the following extracts from a letter. received by the Broadcasting Company from Captain L. Boulton, of the M.V. Maui Pomare:- — "Y desire to place on record my appreciation of the convenience and _ value of the weather forecast and "report which is broadcast from your station 2YA each evening. "Tt will be readily. understood that weather reports are of immense value to shipping, forecasting as they do the conditions which will be encountered by vessels in different positions and-steering various eourses." Captain Boulton adds that the Bhip’s ‘wireless operator, Mr. Hooker, rarely experiences any difficulty in receiving the reports. ;