ENCIRCLING THE EARTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15131, 23 October 1912, Page 5

ENCIRCLING THE EARTH.

EXTENDED WIRELESS SCHEMES

[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

Wellington, Tuesday. Thb Marconi Company is erecting at San Francisco and Honolulu wireless stations of tho same type as those which it is proposed to construct for the British Imperial scheme. Tho new Marconi station at Honolulu has been so designed as to enable wireless communication to be established at a little later date with similar stations to be erected at Yokohama and in the Philippine Islands. ' live Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America has commenced proceedings for infringement of patent rights against the Federal Wireless Telegraph Company, which has established communication between San Francisco and Honolulu by means of the Poulson system. A contract has been entered into with the Norwegian Government for the erection of high-power stations in Nwway and the vicinity of New York -for the purpese of conducting a. commercial telegraph service between northern Eurepe and America. The receipts of the joint stations will bo pooled by the Norwegian Government and the .Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and divided equally between them. -The .Marconi Company is to receive a sum for the Norwegian station, exclusive of site, foundations, and buildings, and 10 per cent, of the gross receipts. The contract is for a definite period of 25 years, at the end of which the Norwegian Government has the ryrhfc to renew it.