"GOLDEN" SPEECH.
COST £25 PER MINUTE.
(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 1. A twelve minutes' speech, costing £25 a minute , , was made by wireless telephone from Ottawa, by the Minister of Commerce, Mr. James Malcolm, to Cardiff on the occasion of the Empire exhibition at Cardiff, where Canada is the biggest single exhibitor.
The speech was telephoned from Ottawa to New York and wirelessed from Rocky Point. It was picked up In Fifeshire and sent by a land line to London, where it was amplified. Thence it went to Cardiff where it was heard perfectly by 3000 visitors at the exhibition.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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101"GOLDEN" SPEECH. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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