"WIRELESS" CARLES.
■ -•_—; POSTMASTER-GENERAL'S STATEMENT. : . [BY vnLEGRAPK, —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Tuesday. Cable messages may now be accepted within the Dominion for transmission "by wireless" telegraph front certain land stations in Canada and the United States of America respectively to such of the steamers of the Transatlantic Steamship Company as are fitted with the necessary apparatus to receive them. Between terminal ports* they are subject to additional prepaid post and telegraph charges. The address and signature of all cable messages are transmitted free of charge over the wireless system, but the usual cable rates are chargeable on each complete outgoing message to the terminal landstation. - • , ■ . The Postmaster-General's annual report as predated to Parliament to-day says: No ships visit New Zealand water*, except war vessels, are equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus The foreign-going .vessels which trade to these waters are on the return voyage within the reach of wireless stations along the coasts of Great Britain, but appear to consider it unnecessary to set up wireless apparatus on the ship to avail themselves of these coastal facilities* The Dominion has not yet esUbhshed aujj wireless stations to communicate with ships.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 7
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"WIRELESS" CARLES.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 7
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