APPENDIX F LXXXV 
The Post, Wellington, New Zealand, February 20, 1907. 
The local corresponding secretary of the British Weights and 
Measures Association recently forwarded to the Wellington Chamber of 
Commerce a copy of the annual report of that body, in which appears 
Sir Sandford Fleming’s article recommending a forty-inch metre as a 
world standard. In acknowledging receipt, the secretary of the Chamber 
of Commerce writes :—% The whole question of the treatment of British 
weights and ‘measures and the best method of systematising these and 
bringing them and the metric system into some measure of conformity 
is evidently surrounded with difficulties of which we‘at this distance 
from the centre of activity have little conception ; and those who, like 
Sir Sandford Fleming, try to contribute to the solution of the question 
deserve the thanks of the Empire.” Sir Sandford Fleming’s proposal 
was described in detail in our editorial columns on the 12th January. 
The feeling is growing in many quarters, that the Royal Society, in 
bringing this matter to public notice, has done so to some purpose. 
Proc.. 1907. 6. 
