TWO STRINGS TO BOW

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 7

TWO STRINGS TO BOW

WIRELESS AND CABLES IMMENSE POTENTIALITIES. LONDON PRESS COMMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGIII LONDON, Jan. 16. DAor.ssing tlie wire’.ess and cables eon‘.V? pc nee. the. “Financial News” says: — “Instead of implying that one system vill be taken up and the otheir turned down, the inference Is rather the inclusion of both. There are now, with the development of the beam, two strings to the bow. Is it to be supposed that one will cut or must supersede the ether ? There exists an immense poten - tiality. Traffic is only waiting to be nursed into actuality by the facilities.

“Rated even on a cautious estimate, ihe traffic -growth will lie enough to employ fully both means of transmission. ' CVeaily the best way to- encourage the traffic to the extent of the enlarged capacities is by a reduction of the rates proportionately as traffic extends. This involves an .understanding and agreement. Alohopoly ill this direction is a. fool’s paradise. "Within 10 years the traffic will have grown many times over. The habit of overseas communication by telegraphy d-s in its infancy. The danger lies not- in a iriva-te monopoly, but in an attempt to institute a Government monopoly. The danger of watered capital and the rigid routine of public control should he. kept .villi,in the bounds of public needs- ’