Information Wanted

Incidence of S. Pacific Hurricanes to be Studied

rE Director of Meteorological Services in Fiji, Flight-Lieutenant Ralph Dyer, intends to make an intensive study of the incidence of hurricanes in the South Pacific area. For this study, he is anxious to collect all possible details of past serious storms affecting Fiji or other Pacific islands.

He would like to enlist the aid of any residents of the South Pacific who could loan, for copying, any .photographs or written or printed details of past hurri canes and hurricane damage.

All documents and photographs re ceived will be treated with extreme care and will be returned as soon as copies are completed. All material should be registered and addressed to the Director of Meteorological Services, Box 288, Suva. The full addre&s of the sender should be enclosed in order to ensure safe* return.

Flight-Lieutenant Dyer asks particu larly for these details: :The date of the storm; the locality affected and the approximate track of the storm: its severity; damage done—illustrated by photographs, if possible—and, finally, any relevant weather observations made at the time.