RADIO PROBLEMS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 October 1927, Page 7

RADIO PROBLEMS

INTERNATIONAL REGULATION.

CONFERENCE AT NEW YORK

A MONTH’S WORK AHEAD

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGH'I (Received 10.15 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. President Coo’iidge opened the International Radio Telegraph Conference. He urged the delegates (who represented fifty countries) to discuss the problems candidly and be generous in co-operation and conciliation. He declared the readiness of the United States to aid in solving the problems of the conference, which was expected to devote over a month to the task of bringing the 1912 conference up to date. President Coolidge said: In many fields our country claims the right to he the master of its own develop then t and it cordially concedes the .same right to a. 1 ! others, but in the radio field, the most complete development, both at home and abroad, l:e-s in mutual concession and co-operation. Your main object is to raise thiis great industry into the realm of a benefit to public service.” . The President pointed out the great part radio plays in military defence, navigation, commerce, education, musical and theatrical entertainment. He remarked that the undeveloped portions of the globe suffered from lack or communications and radio offered the means to reach and develop them. Mr Coolidsa added : “To us, radio does not require elementary education, its main, weakness appears to lie in the fact that it produces no permanent retard for future consideration.” Mr Rrown i« attending the conference on behalf of Australia.

REGULATION OF AIR TRAFFIC.

Received 11 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK. Oct. 4. Mr Hoover told the. Radio Convention that the air must be policed, and he said: “We are most seriously threatened with chaos of unco-ordinated traffic. The regulation of traffic upon the channels of the ether is as essential as the regulation of traffic upon our crowded streets, but equally in both cases, the purpose must be to expedite the movement, to stimulate progress and not to retard it. If we are successful we shal 1 have contributed to the mark of interantional commerce.”