SHIP-TO-SHORE PHONES
(British Official Wireless.)
Service for British Coastal Vessels
(Received 16, 8.45 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 14. Tlie Postmaster-General announces that shortirange telephone service with. trawler3, coasters and other small craft off the east and west coast equipped for wireless telephony is now available to subscribers in all parts of the United Kiugdom. i Owners of fishing fleets will thus be able to communieate with the captains of their trawlers at sea after having acquainted themselves with the conditions of the markets around the coast and give instructions for the catclies to be landed at the ports where the best possiblo prices can be obtained. This regulation of supplios will tend to provent gluts of fish in cortaiu cnarkets whilo there is n scarcity in othcrs. Culls can bo made from any privato or public teiophoue, and relatives and frieuds of otliccrs aud men ou tho fishing and coastal boats will be able in an einergency to establisli communication in a minimum of time. The normal range of the service a? sea is about 100 miles from the coast wireless station, but this distance may often be exceeded under favourable conditions.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 5
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191SHIP-TO-SHORE PHONES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 5
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