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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21255, 29 August 1934, Page 10

Eighteen men classed as able seamen, who are housed in the forecastle of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor-ship Port Gisborne, which arrived at Dunedin on Friday afternoon from London, via Curacao, Panama Canal, and Auckland, have all served as cadets with ihe company, reports the "Otago Daily Times." Each man has his second officer's certificate. Hundreds of masters and officers in Great Britain arc unable to obtain employment in their correct ratings because of the large number of vessels laid up, and many have been going to sea as members of crews until something better offers. The Port Gisborne's seamen have all been certificated officers for nearly four years now, and some of them in that period have remained with the vessel for 18 months.

"As New Plymouth is practically free from fog all the year round, has an unmistakable landfall, and has no outlying and unlightcd islands such as in the Hauraki Gulf, there is not perhaps a pressing need for the establishment of a directional wireless station at the port," said Captain H. L. Hay, assistant harbourmaster at New Plymouth, when discussing the decision of the Government to establish radio beacons round the New Zealand coast. "However, a station at the airport would, if worked with a station at Auckland to give cross-bearings, be of great assistance to ships," lie said. "The move is a*wise one in these days of fast and costly ships."