RADIO BEACONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 6

RADIO BEACONS

BARING HEAD AND CAPE CAMPBELL ORDERS TO BE PLACED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, 20Ih Juno. Orders are to fee placed within about a mentis by the Marine Department for two radio beacons, one for Baring Head and the oiher for Cape Campbell, according to a statement made by the Minister of Marine (the Hon. P. Fraser) to a deputation from the Wellington Merchant Service Guild which waited on him to-day. The discussion was held in private. The deputation which consir-V'l. of Captain F. A. Macindoe (secretary) and Captains Worm!'. r "'' v Holm, Meltzer, Watson and Knowles, suggested to the Minister a r.vrib.of points round the New Zealahd coast where radio beacons would be desirable. The Minister said he was in full agreement with the proposals, and informed the deputation that the work would go ahead as quickly as possible. A start would be made with two beacons, to be placed at Baring Head and Cape Campbell, and others would be placed for these in about a months’s time. He assured the deputation that the only reason for the delay since he had taken office was that the radio engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department was abroad investigating radio matters, including marine beacons, and it was the desire of the Government that equipment in accordance with the latest world’s practice should be installed. Now that this information was available, he was as desirous as the members of the deputation that progress should he made as rapidly as possible.