'PHONE TO CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 7

'PHONE TO CANADA.

Service Initiated By Two Premiers. £5 PER MINUTE FOR TALKS. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 3. Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of exchanged greetings at the opening of the wireless telephony service to Canada. The price of using the 'phone is £5 per minute, The service does not utilise the Canadian beam, with which experiments have not progressed far enough to have a bearing on the possibilities of beam telephony to Australia.

Some difficulty was experienced at the outset of the conversation between the two Prime Ministers, but after a few minutes they were able to converse with comparative ease. The conversation included the following statement by Mr. Baldwin: "I am very interested in having the oppor-

dninity of opening this new telephone service between Great Britain and Canada by a conversation with you, and I am specially glad that it comes so soon after my viqit Canada and our talks together there. "This development will add another to many h#ppy recollections and a memorable year. lam 6ure that the service, of which this is the beginning, will prove to be of far reaching utility, and I am confident that it will receive a warm welcome in both our countries and bring us, if possible, nc.-i rev together."