NAVIGATION IN FOG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 8

NAVIGATION IN FOG.

WIRELESS DIRECTION FINDING

EXPERIMENTS AT TIRI.

The Government steamer Tutanekai will leave Auckland to-morrow for Tiri, having on Aboard . electricians from the Post and Telegraph Department, who will erect on the island a temporary, wireless directionfinding -station. It is expected that three days will suffice for the work, after which tests will 1 be* carried out by the vessel. The Tutanokai will have on board a number of people directly.; concerned \ with direction-finding.; The Minister for Marine, the Hon. G. J. Anderson, when discussing in March the question of a direction r finding instrument, in conjunction with a wireless telegraph fog signal for the Three Kings and Cape ' Maria van Dieman,: said "-. that to remove prejudice as far as possible, and, to some extent, to educate some of those who had not had the advantage of actually experiencing the benefits of this modern aid to navigation, . he had tieoided to erect a temporary station on Tiri, to work with the direction-finding instrument in the Tutanekai. The Minister added that when that was done a day, or two if necessary, would be devoted to : a demonstration at which representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, MercHant; Service Guild, shipping companies, and masters of vessels in port would be able to take part.