NEW ZEALAND WIRELESS

Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND WIRELESS

AWAITING RESULTS STATEMENT BY PREMIER [Feu United Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, March 30. On his first visit to 3YA,'tho Christ* church station of the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand, last night the Prime gave an address dealing with broadcasting, the economic position, and industrial questions. He said that recent tests of the new beam wireless system between Australia and Britain bad been watched with great interest by the Government. It was essential that New Zealand should provide itself with the most modern and effective system of wireless communication, and at the same time the most economical. It was hardly reasonable to expect a country with about one and a-half million people to expend a largo sum of money on an undertaking which had, up to the_ present, been very largely of an experimental nature. There had been extensive improvements in recent years, and, indeed, others were pending which might make it possible for Now Zealand to have a complete system of communication by wireloss at a cost satisfactory to all. “No one can fail to recognise the great service that broadcasting, properly conducted, can give to a country,said Mr Coates. “A few weeks ago I was able to arrange for the reception and publication in New Zealand of daily wireless messages broadcasted by the British Foreign Office from, England’s great station at Rugby, with the result that authoritative information is available in New Zealand simultaneously with its publication in the United Kingdom.”