WIRELESS DEVELOPMENTS
IMPORTANT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT THE IMPERIAL CIRCUIT. (uT TBLEGBAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The Postmaster-General, discussing the future of wireless, says : — It ifl proposed that when the Imperial chain, of wireless stations is completed an arrangement will bo made for transmission of messages from Australasia to the United Kingdom for two .shillings a word against three shillings by cable, though he has no official information. The matter will require some discussion, for it is impossible to predict what will be t the ultimate development of wireless. Within the last two or three Weeks I have received a confidential communication, from which there is every reason to believe that wireless telegraphy over long distances— 2ooo miles or more— will be possible at a speed much greater than that of submarine cables. A station similar to Awanui is to be erected near Bluff, and wilt be gone on with immediately the latter is finished. With stations at Awaaui, Suva, Rarotonga (which ia dependent on the French action at Tahiti), the Pacific will be widely ranged." The Minister is hopeful that a conference next year of representatives o' Canada, Australia, and New Zealand would lead to practical steps for laying an Imperial cable between Canada and Great Britain. ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 8
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207WIRELESS DEVELOPMENTS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 8
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