WIRELESS ON SHIPS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3466, 18 October 1913, Page 4

WIRELESS ON SHIPS

THE NEW REGULATIONS to be gazetted next week. LBV TEIiEGIi A. I’ll —PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT! .WELLINGTON, Oct. 17. Regulations providing that ships shall be equipped with wireless telegraphic apparatus will he gazetted j within the next week, j I lie regulations will empower the i Governor from time to time to bv Order-in-Council to require that ships i registered in New Zealand and earr.v- ---| ing passengers shall bo equipped with ) apparatus for transmitting messages |by wireless telegraphy. Bower will | be retained by the Minister for Mar- ; ine to exempt any steamship from the | operation oi the regulations or to j limit the time which any such exempj tion*shall be enforced. Every steamship registered in Ne.v Zealand and I carrying passengers engaged in foreign j or intercolonial trade except stcam- [ ship trading to the Auckland. Chatham. or Campbell Islands, and every Home trade steamship which is authorised by lier ordinary survey certificate to carry not less than one hundred and fifty passengers at sea shall not leave or attempt to leave any New Zealand port unless she is equipped with an efficient apparatus for radio communication in good working order. Ihe range of the apparatus must be not less than a distance off 100 miles day or night. Ships required to carry the apparatus shall be placed in the third-class as defined by article 13 of the service regulations of the International Radio 'Telegraphic Convention, 1912. ’That is to say they will not be bound to perforin regularly anylistening service. • The Minister for Marine may appoint inspectors for the purposes of the regulations, and certain powers are given to. these inspectors and to the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine. Provision is made for pro- ! venting a steamship leaving port if j she is not efficiently' equipped in accordance with the regulations. The power necessary to transmit signals shall at all times while the vessel is under way be available ffor the wireless operator’s use, and any master or owner of tho ship committing a breach of the regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding £SOO. The regulations will come into force on July 1, 1914.