Fiji Meteorologists Please

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AT Queensland University, bane, they have installed sitive seismographs (the struments that are used for re ing earthquakes) in order that may plot cyclones when thej 2,000 miles or four or five day the coast.

The seismographs are fresh of top secret list of the US War partment.

The benefits of long-range ting of cyclones is obvious: : and planes can avoid them am land, preparations can be mac minimise their effect. The cy< season in NE Australia. New : rides, etc., extends from Decei to May. In Australia and the Pacific (although New Guinea most parts of the Solomons are of the area) these phenomena called cyclones. In Fiji and West Indies, etc., they are a hurricanes, which sounds more citing but is not. Cyclones tr at from 15 to 20 mph but their ternal wind velocity can be anyt] up to 300 mph. (See article page 14, this issut