WIRELESS ROUND WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17109, 14 March 1919, Page 5

WIRELESS ROUND WORLD.

THE MARCONI PROJECT. \% THE OFFER UNQUALIFIED. ': '}y. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. j£j (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, M»r. 12. >V Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, managing ;. (director of the Marconi Company, ; : in an interview regarding the offer 1 , to establish a service with Australia, ;i i Bays, in reference to the objection ;' to private ownership, great stations t£. throughout the world had been in the hands of the Marconi Companv V .in wartime. In any case it would be at least a year before the stations could be built It would be most unfortunate for the public interest if the fact that the Marconi Company competed with the Pacific Cable were permitted to impede the development of the industry. The offer of a wireless serI vice between Britain and Australia *ta third less than cable rates was niade without any qualification. .SUCCESS! OF EXPERIMENTS. M& — -SERIES MADE LAST YEAR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. '; :.'(Rec<L 9.5 p-m.) SYDNEY. Mar. 15. "J§r .lii connection with the proposal ■to link Britain and Australia by wireless, the manapins: director of the Amalgamated Wireless of Australasia, Ltd., states that during last year a series of experiments to test file proposal on a commercial basis • - proved highly successful.