Stations
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Radio Weather
To Connect With New South Pacific Air-mails
AS part of the preparations which now are rapidly being made for the in auguration of the airmail services in the South and Central Pacific, to con nect Australia and New Zealand with North America, radio wireless stations are being established on Lord Howe Island (in the Pacific, between Sydney and Fiji), and on Sunday Island (in the Kermadec Group, between Auckland and Tonga).
Workmen at Lord Howe Island are now erecting wireless towers, which will stand 150 ft. high, and the number of buildings and equipment that are being placed there, indicate that this will be an important station in the system of gathering and distributing meteorologi cal data. No less than 170 tons of cargo, representing buildings and equipment, were unloaded at Lord Howe by the “Morinda” early in May.
The Government steamer “Maui Pomare". on her trip from Wellington to Samoa, in May, took with her Mr. E. N.
Creelman, a senior radio operator, who was landed on Sunday Island, in the Kermadecs, to take charge of the new radio station there.