RADIO OR CABLE?
TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION. ACROSS COOK STRAIT. [Per, Press Association. — Copyright .l CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The relative advantages of cable telephone and radio telephone com- ( hnmication across Cook Strait will be studied by two New Zealand engineers who are being sent to England shortly. The Director-General .of Postal Services, Mr McNamara, gave some details . yesterday of the proposed investigation. He said, that a new line of -communication between the . North, and South Islands, was needed, first because of the volume Of business, and second, because the existing cables were getting old. Too much risk; of accident was involved in undersea, cable communication and the cost of maintenance was high. “I have a feeling/’, said Mr McNamara, “that cables, have become out 6f date-for use in particular services, such: as', Cook Strait/.’ ; Mr' McNamara indicated that the New Zealand engineers would specially investigate the nine-tchannel,
micro-wave wireless communication recently established between Scotland and Northern Ireland. This was entirely new, and obviously the cost • would be well below that of the submarine cable system. Conditions over the Irish Sea, were, he believed, much the same as those over Cook Strait.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1935, Page 2
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189RADIO OR CABLE? Northern Advocate, 18 July 1935, Page 2
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