BEAM SERVICE.
OPENING DELAYED. Received March 17, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, March 16. It is understobd that the beam service opening is likely to be delayed a fortnight while the engineering details and tariff are finalised.—A. and N.Z. cable.
POST OFFICE TAKING. OVER. EXTENSION TO SOUTH AFRICA. Received March 17, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, March 16. Sir W. Mitchcll-Thomson, replying to Sir H. Brittain in the House of Commons, said that the beam stations for the Australian service, having stood a seven days’ test, would be taken over by the Post Office at an early date.
Many detailed arrangements were necessary before they would be open to the public. He could not give the approximate date of the opening. He understood that the company intended to develop the system to South Africa as soon as was possible. Mr P. A. Hurd inquired why there was no telephone service between Britain and Vancouver, seeing that a service was operating to San Francisco. Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson explained that there was no high power station in Canada capable of conducting a direct telephone service with Britain. The use of the beam system for telephonic communication was still in the experimental stage.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 17 March 1927, Page 7
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