CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5] — Page 232

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Weather Report of the Director of the Observatory, and his Report on five

day

2.

of the principal - meteorological elements for 1885.

Dr Doberek, in paragraph

4 of the report first referred to,-

stated that an additional Clerk

and Messenger must be if he

appointed...

was to continue to furnish

daily weather reports and

storm warnings, which he

describes as extraneous work.

not originally contemplated, the staff having been arranged for simply

Enclosure 3.

17th March,

1886. (with 6 spare

M

Copies)

G

simply carrying

one

scientifie

observations and calculations in

daily

weather

the Observatory. The only practical, benefit which the Colony derives from the Observatory is the publication of these reports together with the correct daily dropping of the Time Ball, and the issue of Storm Warnings; and it was on the understanding that this information

Avas

stre

to be

furnished that funds provided for the construction of

Observatory and

an

for the

payment

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