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REPORTS OF RESEARCH 

 COMMITTEES. 



SECTION A. 



1. Macquane Island Committee. 



{By Professor Sir Edgeivorth David, Secretary to the Committee.) 



Reports havei been received from the following: — Dr. J. M. 

 Baldwin, ProfessoT H. S. Carslaw, Professor Coleridge Farr, Pro- 

 fessor Kerr Grant, Mr. C. Hedley, Mr. H. A. Hunt (Federal 

 Meteorologist), Mr. G. H. Knibbs, Professor T. H. Laby, Dr. E. 

 F. J. Love, Professor T. R. Lyle, Mr. J. H. Maiden, Professor 

 Orme Masson, Professor J. Priestlev, Professor J. A. Pollock, 

 Professor T. G Taylor. 



Mr. D. C. Bates, Director of the Dominion Meteorological Office, 

 New Zealand, has also' kindly furnisheid a report through Pro- 

 fessor Coleridge Farr. The reports of the above are attached. 



In ref erence^- to the question of re-opening the Wireless Station 

 at Macquarie Island, established there originally by the Aus- 

 tralasian Antarctic Expedition under the leadership of Sir Douglas 

 Mawson, with thei co- operation of the Meteorological Bureau of 

 the Commonwealth Government, paramount importance must ob- 

 viously be attached to the reports of the meteorologists. 



Mr. H. A. Hunt, F.R.Met.S., reports as f ollows : — " The 

 interest and concern of this department in the re-establishment cf 

 the station is not now as urgent as previously. 



The station was valuable to the Meteorological Bureau during 

 the period covered by the Mawson Antarctic Expedition in- con- 

 nexion with an elucidation of the question as to air currents from 

 the Antarctic to Australia. 



There are, however, more urgent matters that require financing 

 immediately, and I should be diffident to approach the Govern- 

 ment at this juncture for the necessary funds for the upkeep of 

 the Macquarie Island station. 



A station on Kerguelen, or the Island of St. Paul, would be 

 regarded even more favorably at the present time." 



