WIRELESS DEVELOPMENT
FRENCH INVESTIGATORS VISIT NEW ZEALAND. . , By Telegraph.—Proßs Association. Auckland, Dcccmbor 30. Wireless experimentation is the reason (or the visit to Auckland of/ the small war sloop Aldebaran, which arrived from' Melbourne last evening to replenish her bunkers. She is one of a class of boat built largely during the early days of the war, otlfer examples of the sanio typo being tho minesweepers Marguerite, Geranium, and Hallow, which visited these waters some timo ago. In spito of the tricolour that sho carries, tho Aldebaran saw the light in a British shipyard beside British ships. After three years of strenuous war services, s her errand is'now one of peaco and com-' niercial development, her immediate task being to test'the practicability/of establishing a . wireless' station at Antipodes Island, in the far South Pacific. Sho carries an. expert in wireless telegraphy, who is to superintend the experiments. Tho visitors do not expect to be in that region of the world very long, but. will return to Auckland to dock. This port will bo their headquarters • for . a time,*as they go to Noumea, then to various places in the New Caledonian .group, and then'to Tahiti. They expect to spend the .remainder of their verm of commission, about two years,' in making a comprehensive tour of tho French possessions. Tho one hundred nnd more men in the vessel are* under the command of M. le Capitainc de Corvetre Giraud, Legion d'H on n=ur and Croix de Guerre. This gallant gentleman has' but recently taken charge of the Aldebaran, being fresh from deeds of daring, in the fleet in charge of tho torpedo boat. Javeline.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 8
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271WIRELESS DEVELOPMENT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 8
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