SOUTHERN CROSS’S DEPARTURE DELAYED
NO WIRELESS EQUIPMENT Following telegraphic permission being received from the Minister o. Marine, the Southern Cross sailed this morning on her Island cruise. THE steamer was; to have sailed y- - terday afternoon for the mission. stations in the South-Western Pacific, but her departure was cancelled as result of objections raised by the Marine Department that the vessel not equipped with wireless. The Board of Missions was previously advised by the department tna a wireless outfit would have to be installed, but it was claimed by trie board that the Southern Cross, being a privately-owned vessel, the prc-pei . of the Bis nop of Melanesia, and a unit of the Royal Yacht Squadron, -t * exempt from the regulations passenger and cargo -carrying ' ‘ The board states that negotiation on that pcint are at present being ca. - l ried on with Die department, and it jhoped to be able to show that the I vessel does not come order the re I quirements of the Act. If not it will, oT course. ha\ e no | hesitation in complying witli teUOXMh ~ .rT-n V
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 9
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182SOUTHERN CROSS’S DEPARTURE DELAYED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 9
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