RADIO-TELEPHONING.
WELLINGTON, Sept. 16
Radio-telephony, previously associated with calls to Australia and Britain, is taking on a new phase, owing to the introduction into the trans-Tasman service of the Union Company’s liner Awatea with its up-to-date equipment. The Postmaster-General (Hon. F. Jones) announced to-day that the Post Office has arranged a Tasman radio service by which calls may be exchanged between passengers on the Awatea and any of the 130,000 telephone subscribers in New Zealand at all stages of the voyage. “Test communications between the department’s commercial radio station ZLW and the Awatea during the liner’s voyage to New Zealand,” explained the Postmaster-General, “proved that the equipment on ship and shore is capable of giving absolutely clear reception over distances much longer than the route between New Zealand and Australia; therefore, speech can be maintained at any time of the day.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 3
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141RADIO-TELEPHONING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 3
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