RADIO BEACON

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 4

RADIO BEACON

Bariiig Head Station Ready Next Month ELECTRIC EYE FOR FOGS By Telegraph— J?ress Associtttion. WELLINGTON, Iast Night. ( Early next month a new wireless transmission beacon on Barmg Head will guide ships into Wellington Harbour ih all kinds of Weather duriiig the hours betwfcen daikness and dawn," said tho Minister of Marine, the Hon. iJ. Eraser, in a statemettt to-day. "In adclition, when fog shronds Cook Stralt aiid tlio 'Waterivay to' the Capital City, ah fileeirie eye will automatieally vvaiui. the koepers of the Jjghtliouse statioh to stVitcii over imnicdiateiy from the clear- weather programme to one ihdicatiilg dense niist. "It is recogliised," added Mr Eraser, "there are many disadvantages" and limitatioils attached to navigation by ono beacon. Ih View of this, the Government has decided to place a similar beacon on Cap'O GampbelJ. When this beacon is in operation^ probably about ihe end of the year, all veasels iu localities whdre the bearings cross favourably will get a bearing on Baring Head and another on Gape Campbell, whidii will givfe them their approxi.mate position at once. As soon as the Baring •Head beacon has been properly tested, orders will be placed for equipment for Stephen 's Island, Mokohinau, and Cuvier Island."