GREAT POSSIBILITIES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1928, Page 2

GREAT POSSIBILITIES.

BEAM WIRELESS SERVICE. LABOUR MEMBER POINTS TO DANGER OP MONOPOLY. LONDON, May 21. In the House of Commons, Mr W. J. Baker, Bristol Labourite, raised a discussion on Imperial beam wireless. He detailed all the history of /wireless since 1923, and said he understood that the merger between the Marconi Company and the Eastern was a calculated attempt to forc«y'the hands of the Government. They hoped to take over the post office wireless and 1 cable system, and to control independent wireless and cable companies in the dominions. The fact was that the Marconi Company knew how great were the potential profits of the Government beam service. It understood that tlm post office service, although in its infancy, was already showing a handsome profit. The cable companies were frankly afraid of the success of the beam, and entered the merger as the only way of escaping competition. Mr Baker objected-* to imperial wireless eoinmunications being handled by two groups, of which, lie alleged, one Had a record of scandalous mismanagement. If it was a fact that a decision had been reached in this matter by the Imperial Wireless Conference, then the Government had adopted a course which was fatal to national interests, and the chief result of the conference had been to enrich share manipulators.