So, in 1892, George Bond was the youngest and lowliest member of a staff of five, in a very young but firmly established Weather Service. His official title was 'Clerk and Meteorological Observer'. One of his duties was to ascend Edward Street at 9 am and 3 pm daily to take readings of the instruments set up there to record weather conditions.

Clement Wragge was a man of exceptional talents and dynamic energy, and was possessed of a very well-developed ego. He remained a public and controversial figure long after he retired from the official weather scene in 1902. He came to Australia from England as a young man, and for a time worked under Charles Todd in South Australia. Returning to England for a few years, he maintained his interest in meteorology, and was responsible for setting up instruments on the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain, which he then proceeded to climb daily for a period of six months to take recordings and make observations.

In establishing the first Weather Service in Queensland, Clement Wragge followed the pattern initiated by Robert Fitzroy, and already adopted by Todd and Russell in the southern States. He travelled extensively in Queensland, setting up and organising reporting stations. In 1891 he found time to travel to Munich in Germany for the World Meteorological Conference. The press reported in 1896 that, 'Mr Wragge is on a tour of Queensland, checking reporting stations and establishing new ones'. 'I am proceeding next', wrote Wragge, 'to Rockhampton, Springsure and the stations on the Central Railway, on inspection work'.[3] A little later the Office Attendance Book for those years shows him absent for some weeks on a visit to New Caledonia, to set up a reporting station. Never one to be modest about his achievements, Wragge around this time began heading the Weather News in the local press, 'Chief Weather Office'. By 1898 he was issuing 'special three day forecasts for all States, New Zealand and New Caledonia', and these appeared so headed in southern papers, along with the official State forecast. (The two did not always agree.) In 1898 he was off again to set up a weather recording station on Mt Kosciusko, and another for comparison at a nearby coastal town. As in his experiment on Ben Nevis in Scotland, he was interested in the differing weather conditions at a high altitude and at nearby sea level.

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