CABLES AND WIRELESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 8

CABLES AND WIRELESS.

EFFICIENCY OF TELEGRAPHY**!

[BY .';.' TELEGRAPH. —OWN .'. CORRESPONDENT.] ' "WELLINGTON. Wednesday • Addressing the liotary Club, Mr. 'JR%|§ Wright, superintended of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, said "NeVsi Zealand was remarkably well* off _tel*' graphically from the point of view of efficiency and cheapness. 'He did„ not > think there was another country in the world ;; > that was better served. The Prime Minis- . ter had stated at the Imperial Conference that wireless would be a much better sys- J; i. ; tem of telegraphy, "I but he thought there was , very li tie scope ? for an increase in efficiency in New Zealand. Tiiev bad <ertainly got telegraphy down t) a very £nij||p art. • The trouble '.with' wireless a present, said Mr. Wright, was the lack of continuity arid' the want of secrecy, and he did not; think they.could : have a - better set; J vice than that provided by submarine - . cable. During the war G6; -nany had been wholly dependent on wireless but »*' the Germans were turning out cables andj|«S were considering 'the laying of i- a line across the Atlantic Wo -M they be doing that if had 'found .that l wireless was j; the better system? ' • ;;! People '',: complained "that.. the cabla ; ■ charges were too.high, but it' was a case of paying for a good thin?. He realised. ■ the value of wireless, but he did not ' think it would'replace cables for many a day.