WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 5

WIRELESS.

AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. TENDER ACCEPTED BY NEW ZEA-* LAND.GOVERNMENT. By Tclccnsli-Press Association-Copyriclit-(Ree. February 10, 8.5 p.m.) Sydney, February 10. The report of tho Australian Wireless Limited states that tho company has secured tho Commonwealth Government contract for tho erection of two high-power wireless It also states that tho Now Zealand Government has accepted tho company's tendor for two high-power. stations and five smaller stations of tho ship type. . Negotiations have been concluded with'the Union Steam Shin Company for tho supply of fivo stations to tha company, with prospects of further orders for the same company in tho near future. '- Tho agreement between tho company and tho Gesellschaft fur Drahtleso Telegraphic for the purchase of tho Tclefunken wireless patents for Australia, New Zealand, and tho Pacific Islands has not been received, but a cablegram has been received stating that the agreement has been completed. Tho directors have under consideration a scheme for tho flotation of a public company to take over all the company's rights and undertakings. THE UNITED STATES COAST. Now York, February 9. The United States Government plans for tho extension of wireless telegraphy oil the coast includo tho linking up of the Aleutian and Pribyloff Islands. "Tho radio telegraph will bo chiefly used against- the seal poachers. . - [The Aleutian Islands, are J about 1650 miles west of Alaska. Pribvloff Islands in Behring Sea, -belonging to Alaska. THE NEW.ZEALAND STATIONS., The Prime Minister (Sir J. G. Ward) stated recently that, a. satisfactory offer had bean received for tho erection of two high-power and fivo • low-power wireless telegraph stations.' '. One high-power station will boerected'at Doubtless Bay, and the other at tho Bluff. > Each will bo capable of keeping up'communication with the continent of Australia. '"■ The lowpower stations will be ercotad, one each at Gisborne, New Plymouth, Christchurch, and Wellington, and also one on beard tho Government steamer Tutanekai. Tho Prime Minister : also stated that experiments which have been conducted by officers of the 'Telegraph Department, at Wellington have satisfied ■■ him that the smaller station can convenientlyi bo erected on tho roofs above the post offices nt the places named, .a course which will materially reduce tho cost of upkeep, ns the stations will ho under the immediate charge of the postnjasters. The highpower stations, however, will ba independent units, staffed bv special staffs and remaining open day and night. When the proposed stations ore erected, every corner of the coast and the oceans '.surrounding New Zealand within a'considerable radius will be within tho field of our wireless telegraph system. '-~.' (Interviewed last evening' Sir Joseph 1 Ward repeated that the Government had accepted the tender subject to certain details being arranged. When theso details wer* settled ho would be prepared to make publio tho matter of price.