Rabaul Observatory
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To Keep watch on volcanoes
mHE Federal Government announced at 1 the end of April that a volcanologi cal observatory, with suitable equipment and staff, would be established at Rabaul, New Guinea, to take the place of the present temporary establishment, and to give the Rabaul population a timely warning of any volcanic eruption.
The necessary scientific instruments have been ordered, the observatory is now be ing built, the staff will be placed in charge of Mr. N. H. Fisher (geologist of the New Guinea ml^ s A^ tlo i^ n a £ d A? * exacted that be in operation about the e d Mr. D. Harper arrived in New Zealand recently from Apia, Western Samoa, after completing his term of service in the Administration Audit Department.