RADIO TELEPHONE
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND EARLY ESTABLISHMENT (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, 2nd' May. Regarding the cable message from Sydney that the managing director of the Amalgamated Wireless ".was hoping to establish a radio telephone service between Australia and New Zealand, the Prime Minister, by telephone from Rotorua, stated to-day that the Government iii New Zealand had bee*i .in communication with the Australian Postal authorities since September last, and that negotiations are almost completed for the introduction of a radio telephone service between Wellington and Sydney. Most of the: material is already at hand, and the balance is ex-, pected with the next two months. Sir Joseph said it was hoped that this telephone service will be of great assistance to business men. in New Zealand, as it would enable any business man connected with a telephone in Wellington, and perhaps elsewhere, to communicate with any business man in Sydney. - : . •It was also hoped, he said, that later those who, wish to communicate with London could -be switched through at Sydney to ..the ,new' telephone service which was opened-the other day.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 May 1930, Page 8
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