[?]e Gauge at Christmas Is.
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December, the US fishery re search vessel John R. Manning made a call at Christmas Island, 3 Islands, to install a recording -guage. The work was carried
out by Lieutenant Herbert Lippold, of the US Coast and Geodetic Sur vey, which organisation supplied the instrument. A Gilbertese meteoro logical observer on the island was trained in the servicing of the in strument.
A year or more ago the Ameri
cans installed a sea-temperature re corder on the north-west coast of the big atoll. The under-water portion of the equipment was later smashed in heavy weather but was reinstalled, and this instrument is also serviced as required by the Gilbertese. The records are picked up at intervals by Fish and Wild life Service vessels from Honolulu.