CABLES AND WIRELESS
' QUESTION IN COMMONS. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 26. When the i House of Commons was in committee on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, Viscount Wolmer (Conservative) pointed out that owing to the recent earthquake in the bed of the Atlantic Ocean causing a break of the cables, if it had not been for the beam wireless service, the whole svstem of communication between Bri* tain and America, Australia and New Zealand, would have been hopelessly congested for many weeks. Mr Lee Smith, replying to Mr A. M. Samuel (Conservative) said that contracts finally transferring the cable companies and the beam wireless service to the Imperial Communications Company were signed on. the day before the Baldwin Government left of fice, thus leaving the present Government no power to prevent a complete transfer. He added that the Rugby Wireless Station is progressing. The Postal Department proposed shortly to introduce another long wave and another short wave transmitter, thus giving five channels of communication.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1929, Page 7
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