RAILWAY WIRELESS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 132, 1 December 1914, Page 8

RAILWAY WIRELESS

EXPERIMENT IN AUSTRALIA. (FROM Ot/B OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, 27th November. Arrangements are being made by the Commonwealth Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Archibald, for an application of wireless telegraphy entirely novel as far as Australia is concerned. The works in connection with the construction of the very long railway line that will link up Western Australia with the railway systems of the rest of the continent, are to be equipped with four sete of wireless apparatus. There will be one eet' at each of the two main works depots,, one set at the railhead in South Aus-' tralia, and one at the railhead in Western Australia (work is being pushed forward from each end). A practical advantage which it is hoped to secure through the use of wireless telegraphy in. this way ie the avoidance of delay in the exchange of instructions between different parts of work which daily becomes more extended. Although not much is said about it officially, it is felt that the utilisation of wireless telegraphy for the conveyance of scraps of eagerly-awaited news about the war, race's, etc., will make it easier to get and keep men for work that had to be done at places now almost cut off from the rest of the world.