230 FIRST APPEARANCES Off BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



(1) Direction of wind on 4 November, 5.30 p.m., S.E., shifting 



to S.W. about 12 a.m. 



(2) Maximum force 7.30 a.m., 5 November, not measured. 



(3) H.W. main tide 5.15 a.m. Second H.W. 8.45 a.m., but 



ran up until 9.30 a.m. 



(4) No half-ebb, tide simply continued to soak up. 



(5) Height of water 4J feet above ordinary springs. 



(6) No records are kept by the Board ; but from information 

 Mr. Chislett could get he found there was a tide this height 

 about 90 years ago and one 30 years ago two inches less. 



Mr. Chislett adds : " I am sorry that I cannot get anything 

 really reliable ; but we are not fitted out with the proper 

 appliances for such records, as other ports are." 



This last I assume our Club will regard with some feeling of 

 dismay that the biggest commercial port and town in Dorset, 

 and the second or third most important port on the South 

 Coast, should be so indifferently governed that an important 

 official like a Harbour Master is not officially supplied with 

 necessary apparatus to enable him to carry out his duties. 

 (W.P.C.) 



