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EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE. LONDON, December 4. Captain Charlton, the Admiralty wireless expert, in his evidence before the Parliamentary Select Committee which is inquiring into the contract between the Post Office and the Marconi Company, said the Admiralty had obtained the removal of a restriction upon undertaking that the colonies and others learning the secrets should agree not to manufacture apparatus without payment- Australia and New Zealand declined the undertaking. Tho_ difficulty in finding an additional wireless expert aboard the Vernon was owing to the authorities stipulating that ho should hold a university degree. Personally he approved the Marconi agreement, and thought that further delay would die regrettable. STATEMENT BY POSTMASTERGENERAL. DUNEDIN, December 8. The Postmaster-General, discussing the future of wireless, says: “It is_ proposed that when the Imperial chain of wireless stations is completed an arrangement will be made for transmia--sion of messages from Australasia to the United Kingdom for two .shillings a word against three shillings by cable, though he has no official information. The matter will require some discussion, for it is impossible to predict what will bo the ultimate development of wireless. Within the last two or three weeks I have received a oonfidential communication, from which there is every reason to believo_ that wireless telegraphy over long distanced—2ooo miles or more—will be possible at a speed much greater than that of submarine cables. A station similar to Awanui is to be erected near Bluff, and will be gone on with immediately the latter is finished. With stations at Awanui, Suva, Rarotonga (which is dependent bn the French action at Tahiti), the Pacific will be widely ranged.” The Minister is hopeful that a conference next year of representatives of Canada, Australia, _ and New Zealand would lead to practical steps for laying an-Imperial cable between Canada and Great Britain. 1 ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8296, 6 December 1912, Page 7
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304WIRELESS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8296, 6 December 1912, Page 7
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