TALK WITH LONDON

Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 6

TALK WITH LONDON

R,\ 1)10 TELEPHONE SERVICE

EARLY IXAUGUBATION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 29

Now Zealand will be able to converse with London by telephone in about three weeks.- This will he made possible -by the inauguration very shortly of a radio telephone service between Svdnev and Wellington.

.Some months ago the New Zealand Government placed an order with Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia). Ltd., for a 5 kilowatt short-wave transmitter, to be used in -service between Wellington and various radio stations in the Pacific Islands. The apparatus for transmitting is now being erected in the station -on the Tina-k-ori Hills. When the work is completed it will he possible for telephonic communication to be established between the Commonwealth and the Dominion during the greater -part of each day.

The inauguration of the radio telephone service between Sydney and Wellington will enable all parts of the Dominion to link up with the telephone service -of the Commonwealth and with the telephone systems of Britain and the leading ■countries of Europe. Experiments earned out in Sydney and New York in recent months have demonstrated the feasibility of a direct radio telephone service between these two cities, and through them between telephone subscribers iti the Commonwealth and in the United States and Canada.