RADIO CONVENTION.

Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 5

RADIO CONVENTION.

A COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENT.

(Ans. and N.Z. Cable Assn). MONTREAL, November 25.

The Radio Convention is now signed. The delegates, who have been in session nearly eight weeks, informally attached their signatures to the documents, totalling 26,000 words, while Mr Hoover, as Chairman of the Conference, delivered a speech felicitating them upon reaching an agreement. The final editing of the Convention and accompanying regulations will be left to the International Telegraph Bureau at Berne. The Convention is the most comprehensive communications instrument ever adopted. It is accompanied by regulations governing the technical handling of radio practice. They are divided into two parts, one of which is non-obligatory on the United States because the latter’s radio communications are handled by private companies.

Important provisions of the Radio Convention are compulsory arbitration in radio disputes, and the creation of an International Technical Advisory Committee. The Convention will be subject to revision. It meets at Madrid in 1932. Meanwhile the International Buteau at Berne will be the general international agency for radio information. The question of plural voting in radio matters was not settled at the present Conference, and is not mentioned in the Convention, which also avoided discussion on the Cortina report, which will be left to the Madrid Congress.