IMPERIAL WIRELESS.
BRITAIN MAKES START.
SITE AT RUGBY BOUGHT.
A. and N.Z.
LONDON. July 17.
The Postmaster-General, Sir L. Worthington Evans, in the House of Commons, announced that the Post Office had purchased 800 acres near Rugby for a high power station as a link in the Empire wireless chain. The cost of the site, including compensation for disturbance, would be about £50,000. Provision would be made for the Governments of Australia, South Africa, and Canada to construct stations. So far no definite arrangements hr.d been made for India and New Zealand. Replying to a question, he said that the Eastern Telegraph Company had applied for a license to build a station in connection with the Empire chain,. The company would have the same chance of obtaining a license as the Marconi Com
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 9
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