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Lithographic Work. The following lithographic work was done at the Observatory for other departments :
(a) 6 plans accompanying the Report of the Playing Fields Committee.
(b) Map of Hong Kong and New Territories for Dominions and Colonial Office List.
(c) Map of Hong Kong Stone Quarries.
(d) 6 plans accompanying Report on Shing Mun Water supply scheme.
(e) Plan of arrangements for Armistice Day celebrations.
Conferences:-The Director attended a Conference held at the Observatory from January 22-24 to consider the meteorological needs of the Navy. Commander E. W. Kitson, R.N. presided, the details and agenda having been planned by Commander L. G. Garbett, R.N. (Retired) Superintendent of the Navy Services Division, Meteorological Office, London, who came to Hong Kong to attend the Conference.
The recommendations of the Conference, when carried out, should do much to improve the Hong Kong and Malaya Weather Services and prove of great benefit to H.M. Ships on the China Station.
A Conference of Directors of Far Eastern Weather Services was held in the Council Chamber from April 28 to May 2, in accordance with a resolution passed at the International Conference of Directors of Weather Services held at Copenhagen in 1929.
The object of the conference was to secure uniformity throughout the Far East in:-
(a) The codes used for local and non-local visual storm warnings.
(b) The code used for transmitting daily weather Reports by cable,
The conference was attended by representatives from the following Weather Services:-
Hong Kong
Indo-China
Nanking
Philippines
Pratas
Tsingtao
Zi-ka-wei
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Ligthographic Work. The following lithographic work was done at the Observatory for other departments :
(a) 6 plans accompanying the Report of the Playing
Fields Committee.
(b) Map of Hong Kong and New Territories for
Dominions and Colonial Office List.
(c) Map of Hong Kong Stone Quarries.
(d) 6 plans accompanying Report on Shing Mun Water
supply scheme.
(e) Plan of arrangements for Armistice Day celebrations.
Conferences:-The Director attended à Conference held at the Observatory from January 22-24 to consider the meteoro- logical needs of the Navy. Commander E. W. Kitson, R.N. presided, the details and agenda having been planned by Commander L. G. Garbett, R.N. (Retired) Superintendent of the Navy Services Division, Meteorological Office, London, who came to Hong Kong to attend the Conference.
The recommendations of the Conference, when carried out, should do much to improve the Hong Kong and Malaya Weather Services and prove of great benefit to H.M. Ships on the China Station.
A Conference of Directors of Far Eastern Weather Services was held in the Council Chamber from April 28 to May 2, in accordance with a resolution passed at the International Conference of Directors of Weather Services held at Copenhagen in 1929.
The object of the conference was to secure uniformity throughout the Far East in:-
(a) The codes used for local and non-local visual storm
warnings.
(b) The code used for transmitting
for transmitting daily weather Reports by cable,
The conference was attended by representatives from the following Weather Services:-
Hong Kong Indo-China
Nanking
Philippines
Pratas
Tsingtao Zi-ka-wei
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