New Zealand Polar Year Committee.
Report for the Year ending 31st March, 1934.

The Quick-Run Magnetographs received from the International Polar Year Commission have been in operation at Amberley throughout the year, under the charge of Mr H. F. Skey, Director of the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory. Mr Skey was authorised to employ assistance in the preparation, tabulation, etc., of the records, and excellent progress has been made. The ordinary magnetograph records secured at Amberley also are being copied. The copies, together with the originals from the Quick-Run set, will be forwarded to the Polar Year Commission at Copenhagen. All records are to be collected at the headquarters of the organisation, where their discussion will be entrusted to specially-appointed experts, and where, also, they will be available for other investigators who wish to study them.

The Polar Year was magnetically a quiet period, and Mr Skey wishes to continue the working of the Quick-Run Magnetographs in the hope of recording some intense magnetic storms. It is probable that numbers of other observatories will also keep their instruments in operation for a further period.

The programme of extra meteorological observations at Wellington and Christchurch has been completed.

The authorities concerned consider that the Polar Year scheme has been very successfully carried out. An immense amount of valuable data has been collected, and the International Commission is proceeding vigorously with the publication and discussion. Numbers of researches are already under way, but the President anticipates that these matters will keep the Commission fully occupied for another five years.