JAPANESE BOAT SIGNALS
Pick-up By Operators In Wanganui
"The Press’’ Special Service WANGANUI, August 21. Radio signals from Japanese fishing boats working around New Zealand are being picked up regularly by Wanganui amateur radio operators and local fishermen. The signals coming from the boats are very strong and indicate the boats are working right round the North Island. Most of the signals are in morse but they seem to be in some sort of code because they cannot be read. It is believed they are reports of catches going out to a mother ship. Mr L. P. McManaway, a Wanganui-based commercial fisherman, expressed concern at the damage which the ships could do to the fishing grounds. No New Zealand regulations can control the type of nets on these foreign boats. The sighting of Japanese trawlers has been reported at Gisborne and Taranaki and there have been reports that ,they are taking big catches.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28980, 22 August 1959, Page 4
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