THE TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10822, 11 February 1921, Page 5

THE TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE

CHIEF ENGINEER’S OBSERVATIONS. VALUE OF WIRELESS TELEPHONY. . The chief telegraph engineer, Mr E. A. Shrimpton, who has just returned from a six months trip abroad, has during his absence gathered a great deal of up-to-date information which will be invaluable to the future working of the department. While in America Mr Shrimpton took a particular interest in wireless telephony, and he had come back to New Zealand convinced that the invention has reached the stage of practicability. By means of the wonderful invention, a person with a normal speaking voice provided hie is fitted with ordinary telegraph receivers over the ears, is able to speak into an instrument and make himself heard from 2000 to 3000 miles distant. The engineer has had personal experience of the effectiveness of this wonderful invention, and was so impressed with it that ho delved thoroughly into the technicalities of the subject, and he will later report upon it to the Minister. While in England tho chief engineer called fof tenders for the telephonio submarine cable that is to be laid across Cook Strait. The cable will be a particularly heavy and well-pro-tected one, and will in due course he brought out to the Dominion by the steamer which will lay it. Mr Shrimptqn will in due course prepriro a report upon his observations, and it is likely that his recommendations, if adopted by the Government, will greatly improve the efficiency of the telegraph service throughout the Dominion.