WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 11

WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES.

MARCONI'S BEAM SYSTEM. GENERAL. USE PREDICTED, INTER-EMPIRE TELEPHONES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright(Received 6.5 r>-m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec',lo. The Marconi Company states that it expects beam wireless stations will be completed in Britain, India. Australia, South Africa, and Canada within a year. It also anticipates that the use of wireless throughout the Empire will have become so general in two years' time that the cost will consequently be reduced and that it will be the regular means of interEmpire political and commercial "intercourse. The Marconi Company believes the beam system will soon . innko it possible to have a regular daily wireless telephone service between Britain and tho Dominions. It suggests that probably the Governments, the newspaper cable services and the larger firms with branches in the Dominions will reserve the wireless telephone service for a portion of each day.

AUSTRALIAN CONTBACT.

—— .f - - ■ DETAILS OF AGREEMENT.

SUM OF £120,000 INVOLVED.*

Australian and N. 21. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.3 p.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 11. The Sydney Daily Telegraph states that a contract, involving £120,000 has been entered into between Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., and . the Marconi Company for the—erection of two beam stations in Austra' lia for communication with England and Canada. Certain minor clauses have yet to be completed before the agreement is signed. At a meeting of the directors of. the Amalgamated Company Mr. J. B. Millon, Federal Government representative, said the Commonwealth held £501,000 of the company's paid-up capital of £1,000,000. The new contract would provide for. the operation of the first station Ay : ithin;l2 months after the signing of the-contract* * The erection of the station* for': English traffic would bo the first work carried put. The' Marconi Company has guaranteed the capable handling of 43,000 words (duplex) daily, which means on 86,000 words two-way traffic.. This is'double what was provided for in the earlier proposal, hence the expected cost of transmission will be greatly reduced. Of the £120,000 for the two, stations £75,000- will be devoted to the English station.