"WAIT AND SEE."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18549, 26 November 1925, Page 8

"WAIT AND SEE."

HIGH POWER RADIO STATION.

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.

{SPECIAL TO "THE TSMS.")

AUCKLAND. November 25

Tho New Zealand Government is adopting a cautious policy before embarking on an expensive schemo of erecting a high-powered wireless station in the Dominion, capable of engaging commercially in overseas communication.

The Prime Minister intimated to-day that nothing further transpired since tho Government decided six or SQven months ago to defer tho whole question of establishing a high-powered wireless station in the Dominion. In view of the fact that important discoveries and changes were taking place in the world of wireless, especially as regards intercommunication between countries, it- was considered safest for the Dominion to hold its hand for twelve months or so. It was quite ]x>ssiblc that wc were on the eve of a discoverv that would make international communication much cheaper than it was to-day, and render existing high-powered wireless equipment obsolete, said Mr Coates. The Government was maintaining a close watch on the trend of events, and the whole question would be reconsidered later in the light of information now being obtained.

In view of the Government's decision it was useless speculating as to the merits or otherwise, of particular sites. New Zealand posses<*d ideal sources of -heap power in her liydro-electric sdiemes, ai».l a station operated from Arapuni would undoubtedly be among the alternatives to be considered when a national scheme came to be formulated.