FOG SIGNAL FOR DOG ISLAND
MARINE DEPARTMENT REJECTS PROPOSAL BLUFF HARBOUR BOARD’S DISAPPOINTMENT Disappointment was expressed by members of the Bluff Harbour Board last night when advice was received from the Marine Department refusing to comply with the request of the board for the erection of a fog signal on Dog Island. The department expressed the opinion that such a signal was not “I can only say I disagree with the Marine. Department,” said the harbourmaster (Captain N. B. Haszard) when invited by the board to comment on the matter. “I am quite, satisfied that if there had been an audible fog signal on the island the Waikouaiti would not have gone ashore.” A fog signal would be the most practical and possibly the least costly, said the Hon. T. F. Doyle, M.L.C., when it was stated that the department had had under consideration a radio beacon. The only fog signal on the southern coast was at Otago Head, Captain Haszard said. The chairman (Mr W. J. A. McGregor) said the only three vessels lost on the southern coast in recent years had gone ashore during fog. It was decided that the board’s delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand Harbour Boards Association at Wellington next week should interview the Minister of Marine (the Hon. P. Fraser) on the subject.
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Southland Times, Issue 24056, 21 February 1940, Page 6
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222FOG SIGNAL FOR DOG ISLAND Southland Times, Issue 24056, 21 February 1940, Page 6
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