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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 August 1939Vol. X, No. 1

Weather Station For

p. 74 · Read in the full issue

Sunday Island

A PARTY of 12 men from the N.Z.

Public Works Department will leave Auckland at the end of August in the A.K. “Miena” for Sunday Island, Ker madec Group, to build an aeradio and meteorological station. The cost of the station will be met from the recent vote of £60,000 for aerodromes in New Zealand and her Pacific Islands dependencies.

It is not intended to make a landing ground on Sunday Island, but the station will link up other work to give a maxi mum amount of information for import ant air services shortly to stretch across the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman.