WIRELESS POWER STATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 6

WIRELESS POWER STATION.

WHY TWO HIGH-POWER PLANTS?

At Stratford on Thursday evening tho Primo Minister announced that a satisfactory offer had: been received for tho erection oftwo high-power and five lowpower: stations, tho two big plants to he erected at Doubtless .Bay and the Bluff, and the'others at Gisborne, New Plymouth, Christchurch, and Wellington. Before leaving for Australia threo weeks-ago Mr. A. A. Isbel, wireless export-who is representing -the United' Wireless Company of America' and who came across in charge of tho wireless plant on tho Aorangi, said that 'in his. opinion, the Government was making a mistake in having two highpower plants. Now Zealand was not a largo country, and-ono big station, which could "send and collect from a 3000 miles radius, (night, time) would surely bo all. that would bo required. Then she would .ho- able to tako in Australia, Fiji, tho Cook. Islands, and tho Southern Islands. Mr. Isbel stated that-it would' he much better just to jhayo tho one big.station at Doubtless Bay, and to increase tho number of smaller stations in centres, whero they could be easily erected and economically worked. To explain what ho meant Mr. Isbel said that one only had to tako Doubtless Bay or Capo Terawhiti as a 'central point, and encompass it into a circlo tho diameter, of which wquld bo 6000 miles, and one would readily see that thcro was little practicar necessity for two such plants in New Zealand.; ....