WIRELESS DIRECTIONFINDER FOR LYTTELTON.
FAVOURED BY SHIPPING MASTERS. Enquiries made in the port regarding opinions on the proposed installation by the Government of a wireless direction-sending set at Godley Head in the main found favour among shipping masters. Masters of coastal vessels are not so much interested as are masters and officials of overseas shipping companies. So far no coastal steamers are fitted with finders, but, as one shipping man pointed out, that is probably because no sending sets are in use in New Zealand. The Government is said to be waiting for at least some of the coastal ships to be equipped, and it appears to be a case of each waiting for the other. Overseas vessels would find the installation of direction-send-ing sets at Lyttelton and Wellington most useful. The many new ships recently placed on the New Zealand overseas service and those at present building are all fitted with finders, and many of the older steamers have also been equipped.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19610, 4 May 1929, Page 20
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163WIRELESS DIRECTIONFINDER FOR LYTTELTON. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19610, 4 May 1929, Page 20
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