RADIO SERVICE
FOR BRITISH TRAWLERS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY September 14. The Postmaster-General (Mr G.. C. Tyron) announces that a shortrange telephone service with trawlers, coasters, and other small craft off the East and Vest Coast, which are equipped for wireless telephony, is now available*. to subscribers in all parts of .the United Kingdom. Owners of fishing fleets will thus be able to communicate with the captains of their trawlers at sea, after having acquainted themselves with .the conditions of the. markets around the coast, and will be able to give instructions for the catches to be landed at ports whore the host possible prices can be obtained.
The normal range <>f service at sea is abon.t 100 miles from the coast wireless stations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1937, Page 5
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