RADIO BEACONS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 227, 22 June 1936, Page 8

RADIO BEACONS

Erection at Baring Head and Cape Campbell .

MINISTER’S STATEMENT

Two radio beacons for the guidance of shipping approaching Wellington are to be erected as soon as possible. One will be placed at Baring Head and the other at Cape Campbell. This was announced by the Minister of Marine, Hon. P. Fraser, on Saturday to a deputation from the Wellington Merchant Service Guild, comprising Captain F. A. Mclndoe (secretary) and Captains Worrall, Dalgllesh, Holm, Meltzer, Watson, Knowles. The deputation, which met the Minister privately, urged the erection of radio beacons around the’eoast of New Zealand, and pointed out the different places at which, it was considered, they should be erected. The Minister said he was in full agreement with the proposals, and informed the deputation that the work would go ahead as quickly as possible. A start would be ma<)e with tlwo beacons to be placed at Baring Head ;md Cape Campbell, and orders for these would be placed within about a month’s time. He assured the deputation that the only reason for delay since he had taken office was that the radio engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department was abroad investigating radio matters, including marine beacons, and it was obviously the desire of the Government that equipment in accordance with the latest world practice should (be installed. Now that this information was available, he was as desirous as the members of the deputation tha't progress should be made as rapidly as was possible.