IMPERIAL WIRELESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 July 1925, Page 5

IMPERIAL WIRELESS.

GOVERNMENT NOT DELAYING

DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 20. During the House of Commons debate on the Post Office Estimates, Mr Hartshorn taxed the Government with lacking energy in the comp etion of the Imperial wireless system. Mr Welmer assured the House that the Government was pressing the matter with zeal and energy, and denied that delay had occurred except in connection with the construction of the north-eastern stations communicating with Australia and India, in which connection, he pointed out, beam wire’ess still in its infancy. Both the Post Office and Marconi were constantr gaining fresh information which, on several occasions, had made a consistent policy difficult. Moreover, the technical formnhties connected with the ownership of statio n sites had produced delay, but he hoped these would he completed in a few weeks. Mr Welmer declared that the wireless advisory committee was steadPy uogressing toward, arriving at its recommendations regarding tariffs, routes and the arrangements whereby it was honed to make the Empire system a consistent whole. He added that nowhere in the Empire wn c a beam station *-et working under conditions of public service, but it was hoped a service would be working i n October between Britain and South Africa and Britain and Canada. Mr Ammon said he hoped that the Postmaster-General had not so handed over himself to Marconi that-' we were 'hio- to find that Imperial communication was hampered and checked._ He stressed the necessity for getting a move on. Mr Mitclie 1 1-Thompso n thought Mr Ammons’ fears would prove unfounded. Although the beam system was really more or less in an experimental stage, ‘•''"v knew litt’e about it, and until stations were actually working they w<*or unable to do more than theorise. The debate was arjourned.