WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14659, 7 May 1913, Page 9

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

A TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE.

ARRANGED BY CANADA.

AUSTRALASIA TO BENEFIT

(By C»ble.—Prase Ateociation.—Copyright.)

(Received May 6th y 11.60 p.m.)

OTTAWA, May 6,

In the House of Commons, M. Pelletier, Postmaster-General, announced that a five years' contract had been, arranged with the Poulseri Wireless Company for o trans-Atlantio system at cut rates, enabling Australia and New Zealand to benefit as well aa Canada. Ho explained that the British Postmaster-General Was not ready to lay a now ' Government-owned Atlantic cable, hence Canada had decided to arrange for a wireless service. Four hundred letters per minute were guaranteed. Code messages would be charged eightpence per word, plain language messages fourpence per word, and ordinary Press messages twopence" per word. Tho syndicate's head office would be at Montreal, whence messages would bo placed on the Pacific cablo directed to Australia and New Zealand. ' The Canadian Railway Board, which was controlling the rates, would sanction a reduction if practicable. No subsidy would be given. M. Pelletior added that the Pacific Cable Board would soon find it necessary to lay a new trans-Atlantic cable. l