FITTED WITH WIRELESS.
VISITING MERCHANT VESSEL. [by" telegraph.—press association.] / (. . Wellington, Tuesday. To the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Steamship Company's lonic, which arrived last night from London and Plymouth, Capetown, and Hobart, belongs the distinction of being the first merchant vessel visiting New Zealand, waters to be fitted with wirelees telegraph. The apparatus, which is the invention 'of Lieutenant J. Holland, R.N.R., second officer, is installed between the main and mizzen masts, and was fitted when the ship was last at London. As the result of an arrangement between the vessel's owners and Lieutenant Holland on the voyage down the English Channel and Bay of Biscay the liner was in almost uninterrupted communication with the land, while a number of messages that were travelling in various directions from steamers in the North Atlantic were recorded on the lonic's instrument.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14208, 3 November 1909, Page 8
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138FITTED WITH WIRELESS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14208, 3 November 1909, Page 8
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