AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1938, Page 6

AVIATION

IMPROVING SERVICE

(Per British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April 25

Speaking at a banquet at the National Cnamber 'of Trade, at Brighton, the Assistant Postmaster-General (Sir W. J. Womersley) revealed important Post Office plans for the improvement of communication services. These include the erection of a. large new receiving station in Kent with an aerial two miles long connected to the receiving station by 16 miles of special cable for the trans-Atlantic telephone system.

Arrangements have also been made for the provison of ultra-short-iyave radio telephone channels between England and France, arid between the mainland and the Shetland Islands. Sir W. J- Womersley said that during last year great progress had been made in The development .of world especially as they affected the Empire. To provide for the growth of traffic to Holland and the Scandinavian countries a new type of cable had been laid between England and Holland. The total number of telephone circuits between England and the Continent was now more than 170. Ultra-short-wave radio telephone circuits would also be utilised for connecting the Hebrides and other islands. In the United. Kingdom itself, where progress was also evident, during the last year 6200 new circuits had been added to the trunk telephone system.