WIRELESS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10572, 29 September 1910, Page 1

WIRELESS.

TlliS. PROSPECTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. THE PRLME M i.NlS'rarS VIEWS. By Tclcjirapli. (Krom Our Own Correspondent.) Wrliiiujion, September l'S. Tiie discussion on the duplication oi' tin' Pacific onhi<- raised tin' question in the Rouse to-night- as to whether the developments oi' the near future be looked to lor a commercial wireless s-rviee between New Zealand and Australia.

The Prime Minister remarked that doubtless the world was on the eve oH great developments in wireless Telegraphy, but the great scientific difficulty was tli.it if was not always certain fliat wireless communication eouid be maintained with distant places or thai a message would not go to the wrong station or the wrong ship. The system would be of great value in communicating with shipping or in case of a breakdown in the cable service due to such, a cause as severe earthquake. New Zealand ought to have its two high and two low-power stations before very long, and the Dominion, while not attempting to compete with the Pacific cable, would certainly be a.ble to keep in touch with all the steamers carrying passengers to and from the Dominion and Canada and Australia. The Government did not intend to make the mistake of having stations too low in power to communicate with Australia. After the high-powered stations had been established it would be easy to have stations on the Auckland Islands and the Chatham Islands and even to inslal minor instruments such as he had seen in London, which could be taken into the interior and used for keeping touch with the ordinary telegraph stations. Mr Poole: Will you provide for a uniform system ? Sia- Joseph Ward: Yes ; but I understand that improvements recently made, in connection with the wireless system enable an interchange of messages to be made, but our system will be*"uniform and enable us to keep in touch with British ships."