RADIO TELEPHONE.
LINK WITH AUSTRALIA. STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER. "ALMOST COMPLETED." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLIINGTON, Friday. Regarding the cable message from Sydney that the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless was hoping to establish a radio telephone service between Australia and New Zealand, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, by telephone from Rotorua, stated to-day that the Government in New Zealand had been in communication with the Australian postal authorities since September and that negotiations are almost completed for the introduction of a radio telephone service between Wellington and Sydney.
Most of the material, Sir Joseph said, is already at hand, and the balance is expected within the next two months. It is hoped that this telephone service will be of great assistance to business men in New Zealand, as it would enable any business man connected with the telephone in Wellington, and perhaps elsewhere, to communicate with any business man in Sydney. It is also hoped that later those who wish to communicate with London may be switched through at Sydney to the new telephone service which was opened the other day.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 12
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