23 YEARS’ SERVICE
Musick Point
Station
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, August 3.
After 23 years of service to international aviation an Auckland radio station built to the memory of a pioneer of Pacific flying is to lose its identity.
Next year the Auckland ground-to-air communications nerve centre will be moved from the Musick Memorial Radio Station on the heights above Bucklands Beach to the Auckland International Airport at Mangere. Although the Post Office will continue to use Musick Point for its marine radio station, the building will no longer be associated with flying. to which it was dedicated in the grim war days of 1942.
The radio station was named in memory of Captain E. E. Musick, a Pan-American Airways pilot who pioneered and proved the long and difficult air route across the Pacific from the United States to the Orient in 1935. He and his crew were lost in January, 1938, after leaving Pago Pago, American Samoa, on a flight to New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30511, 5 August 1964, Page 13
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