To the Editor of the "NontH-Cuina Dairy News, Sim—The letter in your corre: pondence column of Saturday's issue under -the caption of "Colli-Fog" is long overdue regards intensity and direc: tion is very erratic and zones of silence are by no me That any vessel therefore should depend upon obsolete and quated steam whistles and and similar forms of sound signals ax a means of finding her pos or of avoiding collision, which system is frequently thoroughly misleading, when the infinitely more reliable W/T Direction Finder could be made available is indeed remarkable.
The statement that even pro. fessional sailors do not as yet fully) appreciate the various uses which the Direction Finder can be put to may be true, but at least it can be said that the navigator must: be fully alive to the risks involved navigating a vessel amongst traffic during fog and it is almost inconceivable that under the citcumstances he would fail to take full advantage of the assistance a Direction Finder would afford hit.
To the writer at least the trouble' appears to be not so much the failure, on the part of those trusted' with the navigation of a ship to familiarize themselves with the manifold uses of this apparatus, so much as the backwardness on the part of some owners to install this very necessary safeguard.
The latter remark would seem to apply to most vessels operating the China Coast and local shipping. interests would doubtless welcome a further letter from "Nauticu: ing a few details of the instrument to which he refers—the cost of which appears so trifling—and its} adaptability to China Coast Conditions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.