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USE AS COAST GUARD ' SUGGESTION IN AUSTRALIA [from our ovrx correspondent] SYDXEY, Jan. 7 A suggestion has been mode to the Navy Board that along the almost uninhabited coastline between Darwin and Cape York use could be made of the aboriginal system of signal fires as a warning of the approach of enemy craft in wartime. The sponsors of the picturesque idea maintain that all important intelligence could be conveyed rapidly over great distance in this way. On its last voyage the Commonwealth patrol boat Larrakia met startling evidence of the effectiveness of signal iires. Fires were seen to curl up as the patrol boat left Liverpool River, and on arrival at Boucaut Bay the Larrakia found that a foreign pearling fleet at anchor there had been warned of its approach hours before .it was sighted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22934, 12 January 1938, Page 14
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138NATIVE TELEGRAPH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22934, 12 January 1938, Page 14
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