VALUE OF WIRELESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 165, 15 July 1938, Page 13

VALUE OF WIRELESS.

EXPERIMENTS BY POLICE.

COMMISSIONER EXPLAINS. |By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Ministerial authority has been given' to inaugurate a wireless plant to try out the efficiency and value of wireless communication between a city police station and .patrol car fitted with wirelese equipment, statee the Commissioner of Police,, Mr. IX J. Ciimraings, in his annual report tabled in the House of -Representatives. j "This experiment is of a highly technical nature and a costly undertaking," Mr. Cnmmings states. "I am therefore proceeding with it with caution, soliciting the best expert advice procurable. It is very doubtful if good reception can Ibe obtained in a station erected in a I city, on account of electrical disturbance and interference from electric tram lines. It is necessary to try out experiments perhaps from a station on the Tinakori Hills to a patrol car in the city and suburbs to find out the quality of reception obtainable before embarking on a final scheme.

"If good' reception can be obtained from Tinakori Hills, it will be necessary to arrange for the transmission and Teceipt of messages between a station there and the patrol car—an office in the central police station being established to communicate with Tinakori Hills station. This ecbeme is now being tested out by the radio experts of the Poet and Telegraph Department, and it, is expected that the matter will be finalised at an early iiatc."