RADIO BEACONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 15 May 1934, Page 5

RADIO BEACONS

INSTALLATION IN N.Z. GOVERNMENT ACTIVE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Preparatory work is in hand with the object of establishing radio beacons at suitable locations on the New Zealand tp&ast, according to a statement made byt'ha Minister of Marine, the lion. J. G. Cobbe. “One beacon has been in use for some years at Cape Maria van Diemen, and another will be installed with the new lighthouse at Baring Head, Wellington heads,” said the 'Minister. “The light tbwer has just been erected, and the plant for the station is on order from England. The Government is in communication with the Auckland Harbor Board on the question of a radio beacon on Tiritiri Island, in the Hauraki Gulf. The Marine Department has an automatic light on the island, which is also the main signal station for Auckland. By suitable co-operation between the Government and the board it should be possible to' install and operate a radio beacon /very economically. “Radio beacons, by means of which ships fitted with complementary direc-tion-finding apparatus are able to get . • approximate bearings from wireless V Signals, are now considered, necessary aids to navigation, where fogs or. ; lp.W visibility, prevent afi ordinary. coastal,, light-from Uipg mdlly picked ty. »•