RADIO BEACONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 29

RADIO BEACONS

INSPECTION OF SITES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 2.

To investigate possible sites for the installation of radio beacons at Cape Maria Van Diemen and Moko Hinau and Cuvier Islands, two officials of the Marine Department, Mr. L. B. Campbell, secretary, and Captain W. Whitel--ford, nautical adviser, left Auckland for the northern coast in the Government lighthouse steamer Matal today. An inspection is being carried out in connection with the plans of the Department to install radio beacons at various points of the New Zealand coast. A beacon has already been established at Baring Head, near Wellington. Temporary equipment has been placed oi> Stephens - Island in Cook Strait, ar.d a beacon is being constructed at'iape Campbell. When the C'ok Strait beacons have been equipped, they will be followed by installation, on Cuvier i Island and Moko Hinau Island. These points were recently described by Captain Sergeant, harbourmaster at Auckland; as the "eyes" of Hauraki Gulf. When the necessity of equipping them with radio direction-finding beacons at the earliest possible, moment was being urged, it was held that such a step should be taken for the safety of all overseas and naval vessels approaching Auckland during thick weather. ~