WANTED FOR NAVY

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1942, Page 2

WANTED FOR NAVY

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS. APPEAL IN NEW ZEALAND. PA. WELLINGTON, April * 26. The Minister of Defence, Hon. F. Jones, to-night, appealed to the public to provide navigational instruments for the Navy. He said that it is practically impossible to secure sufficient instruments oversoas. Mr Jones asked the members of yachting and boating clubs whose activities are in abeyance, also marine equipment dealers, watchmakers, and the general public to make such instruments available as an outright donation, on loan, or for purchase. The' instruments required include sextants, “navigational and sounding”, azimuth mirrors for compasses, station pointers, parallel rulers, dividers (5-7 inches), protractors (4-8 inches radius), hack or deck watches and pocket chronometers; also watches (thirty minute type), aneroid barometers (marine type), eng-ine-room blocks with large secondhand, ship’s chart-house clocks, theodolites, ship’s and boat’s compasses and ship’s chronometers mounted in gimbals and case. With the exception of the last three, the instru-' ments should be packed and addressed to the Naval Officer in Charge, and the packet marked “Naval Instruments—Fragile,” and taken to the nearest Post Office, where a ieceipt will be, issued. Owners in the main centres of compasses and chronometers are asked to deliver them by hand to the Naval Officer in Charge, while country residents are asked to forward particulars to the Naval Secretary, Naval Headquarters, Wellington.