SHIP DIRECTION FINDING

Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 23

SHIP DIRECTION FINDING

RADIO BEACONS PLANNED [Pen United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May IE Preparatory work is in hand with the object of establishing radio beacons at suitable locations on the New Zealand coast, according to a statement made by the Minister of Marine (Mr, Cobbc). “ One beacon has been in use lor

some years at Cape Maria Van Diemen, and another will be installed with the new lighthouse at Baring Head, Wellington Heads,” said the Minister. “ A light tower has just been erected and the plant for the station is on order from England. The Government is in communication with the Auckland Harbour Board on the question of a radio beacon on Tiritiri island, m Hauraki Gulf. The Marine Department has an automatic light on the island which is also the main signal station for Auckland. By suitable co-operation between the Government and the board, it should be possible to install and operate a radio beacon very economically. Radio beacons, by means of which

ships fitted with a complementary di. rection-finding apparatus are able to. get approximate bearings from wireless signals are now considered necessary aids to navigation where fogs or low visibility prevent ordinary coastal lights from being readily picked up.”