CABLE v. WIRELESS.
FAIR AND SQUARE COMPETITION. WILL BE OF ADVANTAGE TO EMPIRE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.15 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 12. Sir Charles Brignt, consulting engineer, widely associated with cable organisations, in an interview, said that fair and square competition between cable and radio communications would be of immense advantage to the Empire as a whole!, as it would mean reduced rates, which were much needed to encourage inter-imperial trade. [Sir Charles Bright, F.R.S.E., M.lnst.C.E., M.1.E.E., was bom in 1863, son of the late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, M.P., M.lnst.C.E., (knighted at 2G for laying the first Atlantic cable). As consulting engineer fie has been professionally engaged On a number of cable laying expeditions, and also reported to the Colonial Office on the Pacific cable scheme 1897. Sir Charles has also been associated with the Inter Departmental Communication Committee, House of Commons RadioTelegraphic Committee, Dominions Royal Commission, Royal Flying Corps Inquiry Commission, International Air Congress, 1920, 1922 and 1923; also is a Board of .Trade arbitrator, F.S.S., F.R.Hist.S., F.R.G.S., etc.]
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 December 1927, Page 7
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172CABLE v. WIRELESS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 December 1927, Page 7
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