RADIO BEACON
MOKO HiNAU ISLAND POWER HOUSE AND PLANT COMPLETION OF THE WORK (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 10. After an absence of 10 days on visits to lighthouses on the northern coast, the Government lighthouse steamer Matai returned to Auckland this afternoon. When she leaves port on Monday night she will carry a number of Public Works Department men who will be landed on Moko Hinau Island to complete work on the power house and plant for the radio beacon being established at that point. It is expected that the work will take abo.ut two months, and the men will live bn (he island until it is completed.
Returning to Auckland towards the end of next week, the Matai will then take the transmitting instrument and a staff of experts from the Post and Telegraph Department to install it at the radio beacon station now nearing completion on Cuvier Island. Practically all the equipment for the transmitting stations on the two islands which will guide vessels into Hauraki Gulf- has been taken by the Matai at intervals since last September. After landing the party at Cuvier Island the lighthouse steamer will continue on her voyage down the east coast to Wellington.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19390811.2.130
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 23884, 11 August 1939, Page 10
Word Count
203RADIO BEACON Otago Daily Times, Issue 23884, 11 August 1939, Page 10
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in