TASMAN AIR SERVICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 8

TASMAN AIR SERVICE

RADIO AND METEOROLOGICAL AIDS GUIDING PLANES OVER SEA DETAILED PLANS OUTLINED [Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. Outlining the proposals agreed to by the Australian and New Zealand Governments for the establishment of adequate radio and meteorological aids to the trans-Tasman air mail service, as recommended by the conference held at Melbourne at the end of last year, the Postmaster-General (Hon. F. Jones) said to-day that the major six-hourly synoptic Australian weather report would be broadcast through the Royal Australian navy station at Canberra when it was ready for operation, and in the meantime from the Royal Australian Air Force station at Point Cook. New Zealand synoptic reports would be broadcast through the Post, and Telegraph radio station at Wellington and synoptic reports, forecasts ana advices, applying particularly to the Tasman service, would be exchanged by point-to-point terminal radio stations to be established at Sydney and Auckland. Navigation Facilities Point-to-point radio facilities would be provided between Sydney and Auckland, Sydney and Lord Howe Island, and Auckland and Awarua. Aircraft radio i ommunication facilities would be provided at Sydney, Lord Howe Island and Auckland, and radio navigation facilities at Sydney, Lord Howe Island. Auckland and Awarua. Approval had been given for the installation of a special transmitter at Wellington, to be in operation early in March. The up-to-date terminal radio centre which is being established at East Tamaki, in the Hauraki Gulf, is to be known as the Musick Memorial Station. The East Tamaki Head would in future be known as MusickPoint. A correlated direction-finding service would be provided between Auckland and Awarua by the installation of facilities at Awarua. The general work of installation would be prosecuted with minimum delay to ensure that all facilities will be available by next June.