AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19149, 15 October 1925, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS.

IRRITATING RESTRICTIONS. UNFAIR COMPETITION CAUSED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13. Mr. G. M. Allard, of Amalgamated ! Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., publishes a I statement in the press regarding the wirei less position as between England and Australia. He says that if any wireless company in any British Dominion wishes to establish a commercial service in com- | petition with the cables between Britain | and the Dominions it cannot enjoy the ! same freedom, which is given to all cable companies and ail foreign wireless cornj panies, to make its own business arrange- ! nients with Britain. i Dominion wireless companies are comI pel led either to do their business through | a station operated by the British Post j Office or to abandon business altogether. The Australian Company felt that it I would be severely handicapped by this j restriction. The competition was not fair unless j the Australian Company were given the same freedom as its foreign competitors to make its business arrangements at. this end instead of being compelled to work | through the Post Office over which it had no control. His company, with tho full | support of the Common wealth Government, was asking for the right to conduct its business with the jaime freedom as the cable companies and the foreign wireless companies. LINKING UP THE EMPIRE. GREAT STATIONS JN BRITAIN. LONDON. Oct. 3. Seven of Britain's great wireless stations will be completed by the end of October, establishing communication with Canada and South Africa. The world's largest station at Rugby will be finished in November, leaving only the beam stations for communication with India and Australia, which are expected to be ready in April. Two Indian stations at Poona will be completed in June, and the Australian stations will be ready by the end of January. The whole of the Empire will be commercially interlinked by the economical beam wireless by the end of 1926. Rugby's high-powered voice will be able to rise above everything and talk to the whole of tho Empire simultaneously.