WONDERS IN WIRELESS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 3 May 1930, Page 4

WONDERS IN WIRELESS

Miracles in radio and marvels in wireless have become the commonplace of our. daily experiences, whilst the conquests of the* impossible arc monthly achievements. Yet wonder workings will never cease, romance roams abroad ns gallantly as of vore, coincidence still lias a long arm and surprises continue to lurk around the corner. Otherwise, life would be a verV dull affair and the reading of the Star every evening would cease to lure those sanguine folks who wonder with every issue what surprise packet they are to open this time. There is always something new to catch the breath and holdi the eye oi the reader who takes up the paper in anticipatory mood rather than in a perfunctory manner. Puck lias put a girdle round the world for Feilding folks. Puck in this instance being the Press Association, which provides such a wonderful cable news service. Which brings us to the record of the radio in its very latest achievement ; the wireless telephonic conversation between England and Australia. And as we inform our readers in the news column to-day. New Zealand hps matters in train for telephony between our Dominion and the Commonwealth. It- is a great facility that a newspaper in Wellington can get into touch every night with Premier Ward in Rotorua and learn the latest release in political news. Rot imagine talking along Puck’s Girdle of invisibility between Wellington or Sydney and Jjondjon! Well might the London Times point out the significance! of wireless telephony in bringing Empire statesmen at Homo and overseas into such close touch that they can “ring up” each other and get instant speech and immediate rcp'iy on the question of the day that cry for prompt answer. Suetkj a facility is stupendous—that the Premiers of Britain and Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can propound; political problems and confound the enemy with instant replies just as easily .and with wireless facility as a housewife to-dav in Feilding toTcphonieally orders the items for dinner. And of equal significance the bending as it were of the powers df radio-activity to the will of man was the achievement jus l, a fjHort time ago of Marconi, the marvel in wireless discovery, who pressed a switch in his yacht in the Medit'S* i-nnean sea, and, obedient to his will, 3000 lamps gleamed in a darkened ha'i in Spdney, 11,000 miles away. Marconi declared that the achievement foretold a time when it will be possible to send electric poKver anywhere with'lout- the use- of cables. What can surprise us now?