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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 April 1925, Page 5

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AMATEUR CONGRESS. NEW ZEALANDER HONOURED. WAYE LENGTHS ALLOCATED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received April 21. lO.n a.m. PARIS, April 20. The amateur radio congress elected Sir Hiram Maxim its 'president'. Air. Frank Bell, of New Zealand, w,as elected -to the committee. The congress adopted e&peranito as an auxiliary language, despite the Scandinavians favouring English. Sydney Sun Cable. , The juridical section of the International Wireless Congress resolved that the right to intellectual property, recognised by the international convention at Berne, 'applies to wireless diffusion of all intellectual works. The congress also approved 1 of a series of recommendations whereby the specific wave lengths to be assigned to amateurs in different regions, with a view to obviating confusion caused by similar wave lengths. The sub-com-mitte suggested the following wave lengths, which are slightly different to those already cabled: Europe, 115 to 95 75 to 70, and 47 to 43; Canada, 120 to 115 and 4G to 41.5; United States, 85 to 75 and 41.5 to 37.3; rest of the world, 96 to 85 and 37.5 to 35.