One baker has had to close down temporarily in Invercargill owing to no floor being procurable. Hertzian wavo fog signals aro the latest invention for helping mariners at sea. In foggy weather, particularly, the new system will prove of great value to navigators, as vessels equipped with tho wireless apparatus will receive warnings when the -usual lights eannot be seen. One of the great difficulties has been that of established direction, so as to enable a mariner to determine from which station the mcssago comes. Several English and Italian investigators have now formulated a practicable scheme, and by means of a radio-comnass ships will get their beariftga «xacatol^
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16285, 19 January 1915, Page 8
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108Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 16285, 19 January 1915, Page 8
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