AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18279, 21 December 1922, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS.

A STRATEGICAL NECESSITY.

WAITING FOR BRITAIN. Australian and N.Z- Cahle Association. (Rfcd. 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 19.

Mt. E. T. Fisk. general manager of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., read a paper at the Royal Colonial Institute on wireless service between Australia and Britain. He said that the need for an efficient wireless service and a progressive developmental policy was keenly felt and widely recognised in the Commonwealth. If Australia's strategical position in the Pacific in the event of war was to bo fully realised, wireless communication must be developed and applied. Australia's wireless scheme fully met the situation, but tho question of direct communication rested upon the Imperial Government erecting corresjionding stations in Britain.

Experiments between Britain and Australia during tho last five years afforded sufficient data to specify accurately tho power and equipment necessary for such a service. It was now quite practicable to maintain direct communication between England and Australia throughout, 24 hours daily.

Mr. Fisk outlined the Amalgamated Wireless Company'H schemes, and piodicted experimental wireless telephony beween Britain and Australia within three yearn Sweeping reduction of the cost, of transmission, ho said, would have a far-reaching effect politically, commercially, and socially.

Sir Joseph Cook, proposing a vote of thanks, recalled that the chairman, Sir J. A. Cockhuni, and himself had both been State Postmasters-General when the Pacific cable- was mooted. Local apathy and general opposition, even from their own technical advisers, had been then encountered. He hoped that, as in the caso of the Pacific cable, direct Australian wireless communication would soon break down ail obstacles and opposition and become an accomplished fact.