WIRELESS ON SHIPS
NEW REGULATIONS.
ABOUT TO BE ISSUED.
Regulations providing that ships shall be equipped with wireless telegraphic apparatus will bo gazetted within the next week. The regulations will empower tho Governor from time to time, by Order-in-Council, to xequiro ttiat ships registered in New Zealand and carrying passengers shall be equipped with apparatus for transmitting messages by wireless telegraphy. PowSr will be retained by the Minister of Marine to exempt any steamship from the operation of tho regulations or to limit tho time for which any such exemption shall be enforced. Every steamship registered in New Zealand and carrying passengers, engaged in foreign or intercolonial trade, except steamships trading to tho Auckland, Chatham, or Campbell Islands, and every Home-trado steamship which is authorised by her ordinar, y survey certificate to carry not less than one hundred and fifty passengers at sea, shall not leave or attempt to leave any New Zealand port unless .she is equipped with an efficient apparatus for radio communication, m good working order. Tho range of the apparatus must bo not less than a distance of ono hundred miles, day or night. Ships required to carry apparatus shall bo placed in the. third-class as defined by Article 13 of the servico regulations of the International Radio Telegraphic Convention, 1912; that is to say, they will not bo bound to perform any regular listening service. The Minister of Marine may appoint inspectors for tho purposes of tho. regulations, and certain powers are given to, these inspectors and to the superintendents of mercantile marine. Provision is made for preventing a steamship leaving port if sho is not efficiently equipped in accordance with tho regulations. Power necessary to transmit signals shall at all times, while tlie vessel is; under way, bo available for tho wireless operator's use. Any master or owner of the ship committing a breach of tho regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding £50. ■ The regulations will come into force on July 1, 1914.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 4
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331WIRELESS ON SHIPS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 4
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