Empire Communications On Cable Breakage.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. LONDON, November 27. When the House of Commons was in Committee on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, Viscount Wolrner, who was Assistant Postmaster-General iri the late Conservative Government, referred to the recent earthquake in the North Atlantic which caused the breakage of cables. He stated that if it had not been for the beam wireless service the whole system of communication between Britain and America, Australia and New Zealand would have been hopelessly congested for many weeks. Mr.* H. B. Lees-Smith, PostmasterGeneral, said the contracts finally transferring the cable companies and the beam service to the Imperial Communications Company had been signed the day before the Baldwin Government left office. The present Government therefore had no power to prevent their complete transfer. The Rugby wireless station was progressing. The Post Office Department proposed shortly to introduce another long-wave and another short-wave transmitter. With these there would be five channels of communication.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 7
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