WIRELESS IN NEW ZEALAND
ALL HOUND-TH-WORLD SCHEME. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, November 24. The plans of the Government in regard to wireless communication with the outside world were briefly touched upon by the Hon. J, G. Coates at Kauka.paka.pa, New Zealand was 12,000 miles from Great Britain, he said, and there were alternative methods for wireless communication—the all-round-the-world scheme, which personally was the one he favoured, and the chain system. He thought that the dominiofi would have to adopt the all-round-the-world system. The cost of the first installation would Ire about £IBO,OOO, and it plight increase to £250,000. That would give direct communication. If the people did not want to borrow the money for the scheme," then it. could lie left to private enterprise. Already two companies had been negotiating to take it over. “We have been unable to move because Great Britain has not. made up her mind what she is going to do,” the Minister added. “ I would like to say that after a consultation with my officers on the question of the chain system as against the direct scheme, I cannot help thinking that the latter —the all-round-the-world scheme—is the proper one to keep the people of New Zealand in touch with the world. We must have direct communication ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18720, 25 November 1922, Page 4
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