BEAM WIRELESS.
PAYMENTS TO MARCONI'S. STATISTICS OP”TRAFFIC TO DOMINIONS. BY CABLE —PREBB ABBOCIATION--COPYBIGHT LONDON, March 7. In the House of Commons, the Post-master-General, Sir William MLtchellThompson, in answer to a question said that beam wireless stations in Britain were constructed by Marconis, under ai: agreement providing for the payment by the Government in a lump sum, also of a royalty of six and a half per cent, on all receipts, as long a., the stations contains valid Marconi patents. Messages send or received via beam stations for the week ended February •J(j numbered as under: India 15,152, South Africa 8516, Australia 7130, Canada 4686.
Statistics of traffic by cable routes were not available, but it was evident that the total cable and wireless traffic with the Dominions was now considerably greater than prior to the beam services.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 March 1928, Page 7
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