COMMENT BY MR BROADFOOT
“ IMPORTANT PROJECT FOR N.Z.” (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 2. “This is a project of the greatest importance to New Zealand,” said the Postmaster-General (Mr W. J. Broadfoot) today. “We have been watching its progress with keen interest. Radio achieves wonders in communications, but it is always subject to the vagaries of atmospheric conditions, and so is unreliable at times. “During these difficult radio periods, which are frequently world-wide, the Atlantic has proved a bottleneck in the quick transmission of telegraph messages, including press ones. “So apart from the field of alternative radio-telephone communications that will be available through Canada or the United States, and linking in to the new cable, the project is highly important in the telegraph sphere. “For some years now the coaxial ‘repeatered’ telephone and telegraph cable have been firmly established for short routes and modest depths. The application of this new technique to a deep sea long route, as across the Atlantic, is a revolutionary development.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 11
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