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Extract from The Mercury, July 3 1901.
	Richard Rogers VK7RO June 1993

	THE ROYAL VISIT
	DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK IN TASMANIA
	. . .
	SCENE IN THE HARBOUR
	. . .
	When the . . . vessels were coming up the river, a communication, by
	means of wireless telegraphy, was successfully achieved between One
	Tree Point and the St. George, just as the latter rounded a headland
	above Brown's River. A wireless telegraphy apparatus was fixed on an
	80ft. pole near One Tree Point lighthouse, and as the St. George
	steamed along about three miles off, Lieut. Trowsdale, from the ship,
	opened the conversation, with, "Good Morning," and then followed this
	message to the St. George, telephoned to Mr. Hallam, the chief operator
	(who had prepared and affixed the apparatus), to forward :- "Tasmania
	greets the Royal yacht Ophir and her consorts," which was at once
	acknowledged, and some other messages followed . . .