WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 7

WIRELESS.

AN AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE TO BE . HELD, NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTED, illy lolccriiiih'l'rnan AMnrtaitmi (lnorrlgMi Melbourne, December 9. In the Federal Senate, Senator Millcn (on bohalf of the Postmaster-General) stated that a conference on wireless telegraphy would bo opened in Melbourne on Decombcr 15, to deal iwth tlio (luestion of commiinication with the islands of the Western Pacific. Besides Austiaha iud New Zealand, tlio Tlipli Commissioner of the Westorn Pacific would bo represented. MAKURA SENDS WORD 1320 MILES. (Roc. December 10, 0.25 a.m.) _ Sydney, December 0. Word has been received that the steamer Makura, on which wireless telegraphy is installed, had communicated with Vancouver, 1320 miles distant, "all well."

THE NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE, j MR. J. K. LOGAN. - i At the conference referred to in tho above cable messago New Zealand will bD represented by Mr. J. K. Logan, Supoiiritcndent of Electric Lines, who has made, arrangements to leave for Sydney by the Mnnuka to-day, en route to Melbourne. Mr. Logan has tnken a lively interest in wireless telegraphy since it was first discovered by Marconi, and when ho visited tho United Kingdom and the Continent Inst year paid particular attention to tho subject. New Zealand, so far, has mado no defimto move to establish a wireless system, though representatives of telegraph companies have approached the Government with schemes. The question was l«st referred to in the House last week during the debate on the Shipping and Seamen Act, a" clause reads:— "The Governor may from time to time by Ordcr-in-Conncil mako regulations requiring ships registered in New Zealand and carrying passengers to bo provided with apparatus for transmitting messages by means of wireless telegraphy, and may by such regulations prescribe fines not exceeding JCSO for any breach thereof by the owner or master of a .snip." Tho Hon. J. A. Millar, in referring to this clauFO, stated that a conference ivould be held shortly in regard to the establishment of wireless telegraphic stations for New Zealand and Australia. Ho thought that ships pljnic between this country and Australia would bo i fitted up with wireless telegraphic apparatus in a few months, i Mr. Mossey said it appeared to him that the Minister was putting tho cart before the horse. There were at present no wireless stations in New Zealand, so that it would be useless, to _ fit ships with the apparatus. The pioper thing was to compel ships to provide Hip apparatus when the stations were erected. The Minister was taking power which he would not need to exercise for a Tfiry long time.'