REPORTING PROGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 January 1928, Page 5

REPORTING PROGRESS

DISSATISFACTION WITH ARRANGEMENTS (By Telegraph—Special to “The Mail”) AUCKLAND, 14th Jan. Considerable dissatisfaction at the arrangements made for reporting the progress of the Ao-tea-roa was expressed by the wifeless operator of the Union Company’s steamer Kairanga, which arrived . this morning from Melbourne. The Kairanga left Melbourne yesterday week for Auckland, and when notified by wireless that the flier?, had left Sydney the officers worked out the. respective positions of the aeroplane arid the ship. They calculated that if the aeroplane kept to. her course at a speed of 100 miles per hour it would cross the course of the Kairanga between 60 and 70 miles ahead allowing for variations in speed arid, in the aviators’ course. The officers of the Kairanga expected to sigh't the ’plane but no trace of her was seen. The wireless operator, 'however, was asked by - the Sydney station to listen in for communications from the ’plane, and he spent all his spare, time at Jiis.short wave set.' The advice from Sydney, however, did not inform him what sort of signals he was to expect from; the-’plane;-and, he was listening for“Mdrse or ..telephonic communications. Iff he had 'been told what the ’plane would be sending out he could have distinguished its . signals from the cither noises, and. the,vessel wmild have Known where to have looked for it.