Improved conditions have recently been offered to civilians who wish to join the Meteorological Service. Applications are being invited from young men and women who have reached the School Certificate standard, and from those who have already served as meteorologists in the Royal Navy and in the R.A.F. The response has so far been satisfactory, and I have every reason to hope that the arrangements made for training will be the same. I am afraid, however, that I cannot now predict when R.A.F. meteorologists will reach the general level of release.