RADIO LOCATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 7

RADIO LOCATION

NEW ZEALAND IN CONTACT WITH DEVELOPMENTS. STATEMENT BY MR NASH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. "I have nothing to add to lhe report already published," said the ActingPrime Minister. Mr Nash, when 'invited in an interview last night to comment on the statement of Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, on a secret radio device for the location of planes and ships. Mr Nash mentioned that he had himself, with New Zealand scientific officers, during his last visit to Britain. inspected various equipment and stations along with the Mr R. A. Watson-Watt mentioned. Mr Wat-son-Watt was formerly a member of the British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and was mentioned by Sir Philip Joubert as a man who had first applied the new science to the detection of aeroplanes. "New Zealand." said Mr Nash, “was in the closest possible contact with these developments both in regard to all the theoretical problems involved and wilh their practical application in the armed services.”

Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert. Commandcr-in-Chicf of the Coastal Command, was reported in a London cable message to have said that it was virtually impossible for a raider to approach Britain without its presence being known. This was because of the war’s best-kept secret, one of the most important developments of Britain’s war organisation, namely radio location. Australia and New Zealand were already manufacturing equipment and training personnel for maintenance and repair.