RADIO BEACON STATION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 14

RADIO BEACON STATION

MOKO HINAU ISLAND WORK. NEAR COMPLETION (Pur Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. After an absence of 10 days on visits to the lighthouses on the northern coast the Government lighthouse steamer, Matai, returned to Auckland yesterday afternoon. When she leaves port on Monday night, she will carry a number of Public Works Department’s men who will be landed on Moko Hinau Island to complete the work on the,powerhouse and plant for the radio beacon being established at that point. It is expected that the work will take about two months and the men will live on the island until it is completed. Returning to Auckland towards the end of next week, the Matai will then take the transmitting instrument and a staff of experts from the Post and, Telegraph Department to instal it. The radio beacon station is now nearing completion on Cuvier Island. Practically ail the equipment .for the transmitting stations On ■ the two islands, which will guide the vessels into Hauraki Golf, has been taken by the Matai at intervals since last September. After landing the party at Cuvier Island lighthouse, the steamer will continue on her voyage down the East Coast to Wellington.