COASTAL LIGHTS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 3

COASTAL LIGHTS

New Zealand’s Delegate CONFERENCE AT PARIS The New Zealand Government is to be represented at the world, conference on lighthouses at Baris next July by Mr. Ronald J. Harvey, its consulting engineer in London. Authorities controlling the all-import-ant lighthouse services along the coasts of the world have decided to hold the conference in order to follow up the work of the first international conference of lighthouse authorities held in London in 1929. Representatives of all nations will attend, and. questions to.be discussed will include those affecting watched and unwalched lights, visibility. of lights, fog-penetrating rays, audibility of sound and wireless signals, radio compasses and wireless telephony, as well as lighthouse administration. New Zealand was asked to send a delegate from this country, but Trinity House, London, is being advised by the High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Wilford. that the Government regrets it is unable to send a delegate. The Minister of Marine, Hon. J. G. Cobbe, however, advises that arrangements are being made for Mr. Harvey to represent this Government, and be will be asked to submit reports to the Government for its consideration.