FOR EMERGENCY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 97, 21 October 1932, Page 14

FOR EMERGENCY

CHAIN OF RADIO STATIONS

. _ Reference to the establishment of "emergency radio stations in New Zealand .is made ; in the annual report of the- Post' and-:Telegraph: Department, pres,eiitecr to Parliament to-day. "."Brief reference was made in last years report to the installation of a number of radio-transmitting sets at strategic - points throughout New, Zealarid. I'dr. emergency' use' hvcalse of interruption to the normal. communication's system," the report states. "The ■work, was [ completed during ■■ the year, equipment consisting of a self-contain-eiportablelow-power short-wave radio-. .telegraph transmitter with' receiver— power for the transmitter being obtainedifrom dry batteries—having been supplied to Whangarei, Hamilton, Rotorua,; Gisbprne, Napier, New Plymouth, Wanganui, and" Palmerston North in the North' Island; Nelson, Blenheim; "v^estport, Greymbuth, Karaniea, Tim; aru, and Awarua-Radid (near Invercargill)'iri the South Island; and at Halfmoon :Bay in Stewart Island. Carp, has, been taken to ensure that the buildings in which the emergency apparatus will normally be housed and operated, are reasonably immune from destruction by earthquake .or other forces." .. .