A WIRELESS PIONEER.
IN OUR -iJiRCIIANT MARINE. By Telegraph.—Press Associat ; on. Wellington, Last Night. To the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's lonic, which arrived last night from London and Plymouth via Capetown and Hobart, belongs the distinction of being the first merchant vessel visiting New Zealand waters to be fitted with •wireless telegraphy. The apparatus, which is the invention of Lieut. J. Holland, R.N.R., the second officer, is installed between the main and mizzen masts', and was fitted when the ship was last at London, as the result o£ an arrangement between the vessel's owner and Lieutenant Holland. On the voyage down the English Channel and in the Bay of Biscay, the liner was in almost uninterrupted communication with the land, messages lieing received from the postal station at Bolthead, from the Lizard, and Dieppe on the French Coast, while a number of messages' that were travelling in various directions from steamers in the North Atlantic were recorded on the lonic's instrument.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 230, 3 November 1909, Page 3
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162A WIRELESS PIONEER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 230, 3 November 1909, Page 3
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