A range of even more detailed technical questions was discussed at the succeeding conference, held in May 1907 to consider matters relating to the implementation of the Commonwealth Meteorology Act.[109] These included the perennial issues of standardization of instruments, times of observation, and the recording and publishing of data. A standard design was at last agreed upon for a weather screen to house thermometers at observing stations throughout the country, the white-painted, louvre-sided wooden stand that has become so familiar to Australians. Yet again, a resolution was adopted regarding the telegraph service, the co-operation of which was said to be 'indispensable' to the work of the Meteorological Bureau, as was that of the postal service which was included in the resolution on this occasion. The sense of continuity with the past was palpable, even though, with the advent of a unified national meteorological system, new bureaucratic issues also emerged such as establishing uniform practices in matters like the payment (or nonpayment) of observers.

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