WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 299, 11 September 1908, Page 6

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

THREE YOUNG INVENTORS, (ut TELEOEArH— pbess association.) Duncdin, September 10. A notablo achievement in wireless tele grapliy on tho part of three boys, aged respectively IG, 17, and 17 years, has attracted some public attention. The' boys Rawson Stark, Stantoi} Hicks, and, Cyril Brandon, have for two years been experimenting, and as a result of patient labour and many failures they have fitted up three stations, one at Kew (Cavorsham), another at Andersonjs Bay,' and a third at Ravensbourne. This evening messages from the Mayor of- West Harbour to tho Mayor of Dunedin wero sent and replied to between Anderson's Bay and Ravensbourne stations,. and a message was also flashed across these points by tho boya and then sent to the Postmaster-General and Parliament. The sending and receiving of the messages referred to were supervised by , Messrs. A. J. Talbot and E. Falck (of the Dunedin Telegraph Department), and_ both operators' speak m high terms of praise of tho success achiev'ed by the lads. The rate at which the messages went was about five or six words por minute. A'number of citizens connected .with, the Railway Department, shipping interests, aud electrical engineering were present, spqko highly of the work accomplished., Subsequently a message was received from'tho'Prime Minister conveying to tho young inventors sincere appreciation of himself and members of Parliament for their message. (or TEi.EcuArn.—srnCiAL coimiiSPOSDENT.J Dunodin, September 10. I was privileged to-night to witness the first exchange of wireless land messages in Now Zealand. It was an installation arranged by three boys named iiawson Stark, Cyril Brandon, and Stanton Hicks, between' Anderson's Bay and Ravensbourne. Tlioy liavo done all the construction themselves. Tho first message rwas sent by wireless from Ravensbourne to Anderson's Bay, and thuico telephoned to town, and telegraphed to Sir Joseph Ward. It read thus:—"To ti:<; :!»st-inastor-General, Wellington: One be'iali <>l ihe boys attending tlie schools ill the L)i'ii.:i:ioii, the S., B. and H. Wireless s.ud greetings and hearty good wishes to tlu mast-er-Geueral and Parliament ol New Zealand." Sir Joseph Ward \ad aslced ihe Telegraph Department to facilitate the carrying out of the experiment. Mr. Talbot says that tho system, though not free from fault owing to the boys baring home-made apparatus, worked very well indeed," and all present wero satisfied that the boys have mads a success. '