TELEPHONES IN BRITAIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1938, Page 5

TELEPHONES IN BRITAIN

A PROGRESS REPORT. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, April 25. Speaking at a banquet of the National Chamber of Trade, at Brighton, the Assistant Postmaster-General Sir W. J. Womersley) revealed important Post Office plans for the improvement of communication services. These include the erection of a large new receiving station in Kent with an aerial two miles long connected to the receiving station by 16 miles of special cable for the trans-Atlantic telephone system. Arrangements . have also been made for the provision of ultra-short-wave radio telephone channels between England and France, and betwen the mainland and the Shetland Islands. Sir W. J. Womersley said that during last year great progress had been made in the development of world communications, especially as they affected the Empire. To provide for the growth of traffic to Holland 'and the Scandinavian countries a new type of cable had been laid between England and Holland. The total number of; telephone circuits between England and the Continent was now more than 170. Ultra-short-wave radio . telephone circuits would also, be utilised for connecting the Hebrides and other islands.. In the United .Kingdom itself, where, progress was also evident, during last year 6200 new circuits had been added to the triink telephone system.' '"• -’v.