RADIO TELEPHONE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 199, 24 July 1931, Page 3

RADIO TELEPHONE

ENGLAND TO AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July. 23. The first commercial radio telephone call between England and Auckland was attempted to-day, which was the first day or the operation of the new service. The call was made from London to Warkworth, but only a few disjointed sentences "were heard at this end.

A Press Association cable was received from London at 1 p.m., stating that Mr J. G. Stapleton, a member or the Empire Dairy Council, and a farmer of Enfield, Otago, would_ speak from London to Mr E. V. Phillips, of Streamlands, near 'Warkworth. tie was to discuss the marketing of Empire butter and the call was to be made at 4 a.m.. Greenwich time, which corresponds with 3.30 p.m. New Zealand time. The arrangement was not known to Mr Phillips until 1 p.m. With Mrs Phillips he was away on his farm, seven miles from tlreir home. Information was taken to him by a friend who motored out. As Mr Phillips suffers from deafness, it was decided that Mrs Phillins should answer the telephone call. They learned that for technical reasons the call was being, put through to the telephone apparatus in the Warkworth post office instead of to the instrument in their house. Instead of the call being made at 3.30 p.m., as was anticipated, it did not come through until about 6.15 p.m., and in the meantime they waited in the post office. “All we heard were a few disjointed sentences,” . said 'Mrs Phillips. “There was some suggestion of a message to all tho farmers of New Zealand. and something was said about Russian butter. We did not hear tire name of the speaker, but we concluded that it was Mr Stapleton. He also said something which seemed to be advice to farmers to all pull together. The attempt lasted about three minutes.” LONDON PAPERS’ CALLS. . Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 23. Taking advantage of the inauguration for public purposes of the London to Wellington radio telephone service, the Daily Mail, London, rang up Mr W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Board, this afternoon and expressed the paper’s" interest in the dairy industry in New Zealand. The paper undertook to convey a message from Mr lorns on behalf the dairy producers of this country to the trade and consumers in Great Britain.

The Daily , Mail representative indicated that lie had tested Soviet butter and found that it did not compare in any way with that from New Zealand, which hb considered was the best being imported into the United Kingdom. The Mail asked if New Zealand could send weekly shipments with regularity all the year round, and Mr lorns in his message stated that the board was seeking to arrange shipments so that a regular quantity of New Zealand butter and cheese should reach the United Kingdom each week. He emphasised that New Zealand had always kept before it the ideal of quality, and urged the consumers of Great Britain to remember their own kith and kin overseas and purchase New Zealand dairy produce. Ho also pointed out that the producers of New Zealand were Britain’s best customers, and especially mentioned that cheese being exported from New Zealand in future would all bo full-cream cheddar cheese. The ring from the Daily Mail came at 4.23 o’clock this afternoon, when it was 5 a.m. at the London office. The News-Chronicle, the • London morning paper, rang the GovernorGeneral this afternoon, a brief conversation taking place.