Magnetic Survey to Correc
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Pacific Charts
AN event of interest to navigate] in the South East Pacific wj the departure from Auckland i August of Mr. A. L. Burrows of th NZ Department of Scientific and Ii dustrial Research, on a magneti survey trip to Norfolk, Fiji, Samoj Aitutaki, Rarotonga and Bora Bon At each of these places Mr. Bin rows will set up portable equipmer to determine the present magneti variation. Through the years this ha a slow but irregular rate of chang and it is necessary, from time t time, to take new readings. Th information is entered on naviga tional charts so that sea and air navi gators may make due allowance when steering a compass course.
At certain of the points to b visited, no observations have beei taken since 1906.
The Rev. Father D. Hurley, o Victoria, has left for Fiji where h will join the new St. Columbai Fathers’ Mission Society. In Fij he will meet his brother, the Re\ Father Gerald Hurley, who went b the Colony early this year with 1 other priests for the new mission A third brother, the Rev. Fathe Patrick Hurley, is already workin] with the Society in the Philippines