MORSE SIGNALLING FOR LIGHTHOUSES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12497, 25 March 1909, Page 4

MORSE SIGNALLING FOR LIGHTHOUSES.

A paragraph appeared in the 'Daily ; Telegraph" recently drawing attention to a Board of Trade regulation making it compulsory for all candidates in navigation to' prove their proficiency in signalling with the Morse code by lantern or lamp. The Superintendent of the Department is alive to the niecessity of making possible a system of night signalling along the New South Wales coast. The secretary for the department (Mr N. Lockbart) has stated that a number of vessels were being fitted with Morse lamps, and his department intended making investigations to see if it was I necessary that the signal stations <■ should be equipped in a similar manner to transmit and receive messages. "We propose," he added, to instal the apparatus at highway lighthouses, such as Green Cape. Jervis Bay, Smoky Cape, South Solitary Island, and Cape Byron. An expert will leave shortly on a tour of the different stations to instruct the keepers in the use of the Morse lamp. -It ia-nob jet UoWwtetlier the men in doing this signalling will -be hampered \>y tlio rays from the big light. The department is trying to work the system without appointing extra men as look-outs." "