DANGERS TO SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 149, 12 March 1923, Page 6

DANGERS TO SHIPPING

LIGHT BUOY AND LOG ADRIFT

(Secretary of the Post and Tclegrnpii Department (Mr. R. B. Morris) has received information from the su-

perintendent of the radio station, Wellington, as under:— The following navigation warning was sent out by Adelaide at 4.30 a.m. on 'Sunday:— “A radio message has been received from the steamer Poona, stating: On Maroh 9 at 8.30 a.m.,; a light buoy, with an iron frame superstructure and platform, was seen adrift in Lat. 36.38 S., Long. 106.6 E. aprox. Buoy and ' superstructure platform bottom was covered with marine growth. No trace of markings. Dangerous to navigation.” The superintendent of the radio station, Auckland, advised: “The following message was sent to all stations by the Sydney radio at 10.25 p.m. on March 10: ‘Drifting buoy sighted March 9, Lat. 36.38 S., Long. 106.6 E. Dangerous to navigation.’ ” A DRIFTING LOG The Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department received the following mossage from the superintendent of the radio station at Auckland, at 6 p.m. yesterday:— ‘‘Please warn shipping that the Kaimanawa sighted a drifting log about 20 feet long by three feet in diameter, at 5’50 p.m. to-day, in Lat. ,35.50 S. Long. 172.25 E., drifting N.E., wind light N.W.”