A PENNY A WORD.

Mataura Ensign, 2 July 1914, Page 5

A PENNY A WORD.

__+ s_ ( • FOR WIRELESS MESSAGES,

BY ELEOTEIO TELEGRAPH OOPTEIQHT. ' PFE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. {Received July 2, 11.40 a.m. ' LONDON, July 1.

Giving evidence before the Dominions Commission, Mr Godfrey Isaacs (manager of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company) sail! that the company .would shortly open new wireless stations at Ca.rfna.rvon (Wales) and Belmar, near Hew York, enabling the transmission or receipt of 100 : words a minute for the greater part of the 24 houns. It w.as hoped to soon .establish land wireless between Glacehery and Vancouver, linking up the Pacific cable. There was no reason, -why Sir Henniker Hea ton's (the pioneer of postal reform)' penny-a-word messages should not ultimately be realised.

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Received July 2, 11.2.5 a.m

~ ■ SYiDNEY, July 2. Hon. A. Wynne (Postmaster-General) referring to the all-red cable, route said it was his opinion tfoat'Tvireless was going to supersede the' calble system very shortly. Messages would I>ei transmitted between England and Australia chiefly by this means. The Government was at present erecting, a. powerful station at Port Darwin for the purpose of enabling direct messages to be sent to Singaw>re> and continuing by the all-red . wireless system. It would be much cheaperAo erect and equip wireless- stations than ta construct a cable across the Atlantic.