RADIO CENTRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 15

RADIO CENTRE.

MUSICK STATION.

SATISFACTORY TESTS

HIGH GRADE OF SERVICE.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day,

"J he Musick memorial radio station at Auckland, which has been established primarily to meet the requirements of the trans-Tasman ond the trans pacific air services, is now iu operation," stated the Minister of Aviation, the Hon. K. Jones.

"Ilie test*, which have been conducted « itli the Ro*e Bay terminal, at Sydney, and with Suva, Fiji, indicate a hiuli {Trade of service is assured," added the Minister. Regular schedules are now being observed by the station with Ri>?e Bay, Suva and Awarua."

The facilities provided at the Musick Memorial station, stated Mr. Jones, included (a) radio telegraph transmitters for a point-to-point service with overseas airports and local aeradio stations, such as Awarun, which would co-operate in the direction-linding service; (b) radio telegraph and telephone transmitters for working to aircraft, and sea direction-finding equipment, to assist in the navigation of aircraft on overseas flights. Assistance for Coastal Shipping. The Minister stated that the new radio centre, with its separate transmitting stations and modern teleprinter service to Mechanics' Bay, besides meeting the requirements of overseas services, would be an important national asset and would provide a nucleus for all radio services required in Auckland. _ When the final scheme was in operation, the comprehensive cervices at Musick Point would also make it possible to extend services to ship stations and includc small ships, which at the present time had no radio facilities, but to which a radio telephony service woul" be a great boon and would give a greater measure of safety in the operation of the coastal trade.