Improving Overseas Phone Services
(From Cur Special Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
The disclosure in Mr Semple’s 10year plan for the Manawatu district ■that the Post and Telegraph Department proposes to establish a radio station at Himitangi, in the Foxton area, is part of the long-range programme for improvements to New Zealand overseas telephone communications, but there are negotiations to complete under the Commonwealth communications scheme and the Himitangi station is unlikely to be constructed in the immediate future. It is understood that extensive aerials will be needed for radio communication to overseas points, including Britain, the United States and Australia, and that probably a square mile of land will ultimately be the Dominion’s transmitting station to overseas points. Radio reception from abroad is already operating at Makara, near Wellington, while the Australian telephone service is working from the central telephone station in the capital.
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Northern Advocate, 3 April 1947, Page 5
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