FOG SIGNALS REQUIRED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 29 January 1909, Page 5

FOG SIGNALS REQUIRED.

AUCKLAND, January 28.

Referring to-day to the necessity .for a fog signal of some kind at the Three Kings, where the Elingamite and other vessels have gone down, Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Marine, said he considered the only satisfactory thing to do was to erect a fog signal there. He had been making a long enquiry into the system of submarine signalling, which had been so largely and so' successfully adopted along the coast of America. The system was a most effective one, but could only be put into operation when vessels were equipped with the necessary telephonic apparatus to receive the signal. When this system was in use, it was possible to receive signals under water for a distance of 16 miles. If they could instal such apparatus upon vessels trading to New Zealand it would be possible to introduce the system here, and in the case of such a locality as the Three Kings, would prove to be invaluable.