RADIO GUIDE TO SHIPS
CUVIER ISLAND BEACON HAURA KI. G Ul.l’ ST A TlO X S (Vet I’l'css Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Within the next few weeks the assembling of the radio beacon equipment at Cuvier* Island will be completed and, after the time required for testing and adjustment, this noderm aid to navigation should be available for the guidance of vessels entering Hauraid Gulf. Some further months will be required for the completion of similar equipment at Moko Hinau Island, jut when both are in operation, shipping approaching New Zealand from Panama and other Pacific ports and rom the south will have, the benefit of radio directional signals. The provision of this modern aid to navigation will be of considerable advantage to masters aproaching the Gulf, and will inspire them with greater confidence when making the port cif Auckland: in thick weather. The beacons will ‘be operated throughout 24 hours of the day. It is understood 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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189RADIO GUIDE TO SHIPS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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