RADIO BEACONS
The announcement of the Minister of Marine that a beginning is about to be made with the installation of radio beacons round the New Zealand coast will be welcomed by the public as well as seamen. The first two, at Cape Campbell and Baring Head, vyill be of valuable assistance to the safe navigation of Cook Strait and the entrance to Port Nicholson, and reduce the risk of accidents on the Wellington-Lyttelton express steamer service to vanishing point. . As is usual with the introduction of safety measures it needed a serious mishap that came alarmingly near to being a grave marine tragedy to spur the authorities to action.. The Government acted promptly enough after the Rangatira struck in February last, but has been delayed by the absence abroad of the radio' engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department. Now that he has returned it is to be hoped ' that the work of installing radio beacons wherever in the interests of safe navigation they should be placed will proceed steadily until the layout suggested by the Merchant Service Guild, and approved by the Minister, has been completed.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 227, 22 June 1936, Page 8
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188RADIO BEACONS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 227, 22 June 1936, Page 8
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