200 FT. PILLAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 266, 31 January 1928, Page 14

200 FT. PILLAR

BLAZING AERIAL MAST Instruments of incalculable the study of wireless destroyed recently in a fif. *** molished the test room aid gf*oratories of the Radio Re«ea 'c' i * katation at Ditton Park. TeTEngland, says an exchange S ‘ ,n «h. A thrilling spectacle was tw. lapse of a 210 ft. high aerial nujrtj**ior years has been a miles around. for Th© mast was situated in th© - of the building, and the flair©* csatr * upward into tlu sky until structure crashed to the But for the fact that taming the designs of the instrS.2®and records of the remarkabletS? they have achieved was saved h*®* firemen, wireless research ymu t 6 ' received a very serious set-hack ’ For all the instruments lost . used for tests in connection important study of atmomh.-Lr* their direction and intensity. Some of the instruments had six years to perfect. One instrument contained a nr-pO-valve set. There was nothinfX! like it in the world. *** Another, known as the Visual r«~. tion Finder, was one of the instruments of its kind made for v! 0 determining of the direction ° ne lndiVWual As the plans and records of th. ™ struments have been saved aa aa a replaced within a few weeks or ram.,, a reporter was told by Mr Watt, director of the Radio ■»-- Station. The fire, which started about 1 * when the stall were at lunch, was „T of the most spectacular seen in rh! district for some time. Ditton is a fine old estate of »>, acres, belonging to a centuri»S house surrounded by a moat wits drawbridge. It was formerly the*™! sidence of the Dukes of Buccleuch The house itself is now occupied w the Admiralty Compasses Departraem and the laboratory and test-room the Radio Research station were Ml uated nearly a quarter of a mile fml the house. They consisted of cr-*-soted wooden sheds, and soon e-im,. rose to a height of 30 or 40 feetau could be seen as far as StokePosta five miles away. The station private fir. brigade — L _ unable to get near the sheds, as S. base of the large mast close by hd also ignited, and it was Impossible tell in w hich direction the mast worit Soon after the fire brigade tna Slough arrived the towering most tffrr swaying gently for a few minute, crashed to the ground. As it fell it buckled almost in centre and then broke into plecm. For over two hours the fir Man fought the flames, devoting their sden, chiefly to saving the office shed, vines, contained the valuable plans and records. H. Hutchinson's Snow View Ruby, 1; c. G. Aicken's Oakland Queen B*e, £ Dry Cow or Heifer, visibly in calf (»iC. G. Aicken’s Hua Brook Sigma. 1- g. R. and H. Hutchinson’s Pedro Exiled Bowene, 2. Heifer, 3 years, in milk (4): G R as H. Hutchinson’s Ivondale Euchssse of Karaka, 1; C. G. Aicken's Ivordale Srwiw Flower, 2. Heifer. 2 years (3): G. R. and H. Hutchinson’s Pinewoods Golden Patch, ‘ arti Blond's Victor Heirloom, 2. Heifer, 1 year (10): C. G. Aicken’s Tonwhare Eclipse, 1; G. R. and H. Hu chiason’s Vernon Golden Tut 2. Heifer Calf (9): C. G. Aicken’s t.. v-hare Margot. 1: G. R. and H. Hmchmson’s Vernon Noble Tut 2 Group Yearling Bull and Two Betel (3): C. G. Aicken, 1: G. R. and a Hutchinson, 2. Best Male Pedigree Jersev, up to dns years old bred at Vernon Stud Fun (SiMax's Hand’s Zenia Butterfly, 1. Best Female Pedigree Jersey up to tin years bred at Vernon Farm (3) - Mias It E. Bews's Beverley’s Maiste, L