EMPIRE CABLES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 81, 17 January 1936, Page 5

EMPIRE CABLES.

SCHEME FOR SEADROMES.

QUICKER TRANSMISSION RATE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. The "Daily Mail" has given prominence to a scheme conceived by Mr F. G. Creed, inventor of the tape machine teleprinter, for placing seadromes of his design, each with a 500-foot runway, along-Empire cable routes, thereby obviating dependence on foreigners along the air routes. Mr Creed suggests that each seadrome be linked with a cable, to which would be affixed repeaters to increase the speed of transmission twenty-fold, also that the use of cables bo permitted for cheaper telephony, even between Australia and New Zealand. It is estimated that each major seadrome would cost from £300,000 to £500,000. They would be very steady in the worst storms. Each minor seadrome with beacon light, wireless and 'plane, would cost from £39,000 to £59. ooo;