WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7024, 12 January 1910, Page 5

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

STATIONS IN NEW ZEALAND. PRESS ASSOCIATIONS DUNEDIN, January 11. A fortnight ago tbo schema by which it is proposed to bring Now Zealand, Australia and tho Pacific Islands into communication with each other and. the outside world, by means of wireless telegraphy, was made public, and aroused a good deal of interest. To-day, in. the course of an interview, Sir Joseph Ward made an important statement to' a “Times” reporter. He -said that in addition to the armugemonts made for the establishment of a comprehensive ■ wireices system in tho Pacific, which provided for a high power station in Doubtless Bay, in New Zealand, tho Dominion would also require to establish a high power station in the south, and a low power station somewhere between this point and Doubtless Bay. The last-named stUtLou would be necessary to enable uo to communicate readily with steamers around our coast or coming from Australia. The northern station, would bo in touch with Sydney or Fiji; ‘while the southern one, having a range of 1201miles or 60, would communicate with Melbourne or with the Auckland Islands. He expected that the intermediate, or low power station, would be established some where in tho vicinity of the 15aikoura mountains. By means of this, it would bo possible, during almost any condition of weather, to keep in regular communication with all parts of the coast, and coasting steamers running through Cook Strait would have communication with the land at all times, without < hUving on board a high power installation, which, as Sir Joseph expressed it, "is neither customary nor necessary.”

It may also be necessary,” continued °v r OS6 Pl 1 » have a station on one of the Pacific Islands owned by New Zealand, but these are matters that are to bo gone into specially upart altogether Horn the general system which has been agreed upon. What we have to bo sure about w to get the most up-to-date eys- *** possible to get. Every care and effort will bo made to assure that’ So far as I know, there will be comparativoly little delay in putting tho unolo scheme into operation.”