PICTURES BY WIRE.
EARLY INTRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA EXPECTED TCI ASSIST POLICE. Tty Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.; (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Postal Department has accepted a tender for the introduction of a service of telegraphic transmission of pictures between Melbourne and Sydney. The service will commence in April or May and the charge will be about £2 per picture. The speed of transmission will be four minutes. The system may be used in criminal detection, as a- photograph of a wanted person and finger-prints could be sent from one city to another in a few minutes.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1929, Page 5
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