RADIO AIDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 37, 14 February 1939, Page 8

RADIO AIDS.

TASMAN SERVICE.

PROPOSALS OUTLINED.

ALL READY BY JUNE. ADEQUATE 'WEATHER REPORTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. Outlining proposals agreed to by the Australian and Xew Zealand Governments for the establishment of adequate radio JBid meteorological aids to the trans-Tasman air mail service, as recommended by the conference held in Melbourne at the end of last year, the Post-master-General, the Hon. F. Jones, said to-day that the major six hourly synoptic Australian weather reports would l»e broadcast through the Royal Australian Xavy station at Canberra when it was ready for operation, and in the meantime from the Royal Australian Air Force station at Point Cook.

Xew Zealand synoptic reports would be broadcast through the Post and Telegraph Department's radio station at Wellington, and synoptic report*, forecasts and advices applying particularly to the Tasman service would be exchanged by point-to-point terminal radio stations to be established at Sydney and Auckland.

Point-to-point radio facilities would be provided at Sydney, Lord Howe Island and Auckland, and radio navigation facilities at Sydney, Lord Howe Island, Auckland and Awarua.

Approval had been given for the installation of a special transmitter at Wellington to be in operation early in March. An tip-to-date terminal radio centre was being established at East Tamaki, on the Hauraki Gulf, to be known as the Mustek Memorial Station. East Tamaki Head would in future be known as "Mustek Point."

A correlated direction-finding service would be provided between Auckland and Awarua by the installation of facilities at Awarua.

The general work of installation would be prosecuted with the minimum of delay to ensure that all facilities would be available bjr next June.