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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 12 July 1912, Page 2

The, International e Wireless Convention has had placed before it some particulars of the agreement" between the Marconi Company arid/the British Government. The agreement provides '-that the Governsupply the company with £600,000 to build tire igreat wireless stations, Austi-aiia providriig ari_ additional £IOO,OOO for another station. The six stations" are to' form a circuit of the globe. One will, be'located in England, one in .Australia, one iii India, one at Port Said, and the other twp presumablv South Africa- and 'Hongkong. There is already a station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, with- land installations across Canada Jft is estirnated if work as cornfrnenced immediately it caj(i ! be finished' in a year. 'The advantages of such a world-wide installation would be enormous in time of war. Each station will be built as a fortress capable of defending itself. Though primarily, intended for purposes of national defence, the stations will be used for commercial business, and will'be exclusively under Government control. "We are' sweeping the vice from San Francisco as fast as the work eaii Ibe done," said the Rev. George Burlingham, of San Francisco, who was a passenger by the . Marama, to an interviewer "in Auckland. "The authorities wish to mako San Francisco a safe city for people to come to, for we expect hundreds of thousands of visitors to our 1915 exposition to celebrate the opening of rhe Panama Canal."

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