AID TO SHIPPING
RADIO BEACONS ON COAST
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, July 27.
I Within the next .ew weeks the asjsembling of the radio beacon equipment at Cuvier, Island will be completed and, after the time required for testing and adjustment, this modern aid to navigation should be available for the guidance of vessels entering Hauraki Gulf. Some further months will be required for the completion of similar equipment at Mokau, Hinau Island, but when both are in operation shipping approaching 'New Zealand from Panama and other Pacific ports and (from the south will have the benefit lof radio directional signals. The provision of this modern aid to navigation will be,of considerable advantage to masters approaching the gulf and will inspire them with greater confidence when making the port of Auckland in thick weather. [ The beacons will be operated regularly throughout 24 hours of the day. It is understood that a third radio beacon is to be erected on the North Auckland coast, probably in the extreme north, but the exact location as far as is known has not yet been decided.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 5
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182AID TO SHIPPING Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 5
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