RADIO TELEPHONE

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

RADIO TELEPHONE

NEW ZEALAND SERVICE NEC OTIA Tl ON S ALMOST COMPLETED (Per Press Association) Wellington, May 2. With regard to the cable message from Sydney to the effect that the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless was hoping to establish a radio telephone service between Australia and New Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward by telephone from Rotorua stated that liis Government had been in communication with the Australian postal authorities since September and that negotiations were almost completed for the introduction of the radio telephone service between Wellington. and Sydney. Most of the material was already athand, and the. balance was expected within the next two months, it was hoped that this telephone service would be of great assistance to business men in New Zea'and, as it would enable any business man connecteu with the telephone in Wellington, and perhaps elsewhere, to Communicate with any business man in Sydney. it was ateo hoped, that filter those wishing to communicate with London could be switched t* lough at Sydney to the new telephone service whifch was opened the other day.