WIRELESS ON TRAINS.
CANADIAN INNOVATION. BOON TO BUSINESS MEN. •" Moro Australians travelled to Europe via Canada last year than ever before," said Mr. Cordon F. Johnston, passenger agent in Australia for Canadian National Railways, on his arrival by tho Aorangi yesterday from Sydney. TJIO popularity of the Cahadian route was growing annually. ho said, largely owing to the' great improvements and luxuries effected in recent years.
The instalment nt wireless on the great transcontineiit expresses was an innovation that would no doubt bo almost universal in a few 'years, he added. It was now possible for business men to converse from moving trains with their offices in the cities. This was a regular convenience 011 the Chicago-Montreal expresses and, even moro striking, conversations wero now possible between tho trains and England. In a few months wireless would bo installed on all the main line trains.
Mr. Johnston is making a holiday trip to his relatives in Montreal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20556, 6 May 1930, Page 12
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