WIRELESS COMMUNICATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20087, 2 May 1927, Page 10

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION.

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW ZEALAND TO BE REPRESENTED. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, April 30. The Postmaster-general (the Hon. W. Nosworthy) announces that the Government has decided that Mr A. Gibbs, M.1.E.E., chief telegraph engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department, Is to pay an extended visit of investigation to Europe and North America. He will leave Wellington by the Tainui on May 4 for England, While abroad Mr Gibbs will represent New Zealand at the International Radio Telegraph Conference, which is to be held at Washington in October next. The conference will coordinate all matters relating to the wireless telegraph and telephone services, and agree upon all necessary alterations to the International Convention’s regulations, which, at present, govern communication by means of wireless on land and sea. Wave lengths, suitable to all the different services, including broadcasting and amateur transmission, will be allocated with a view to minimising interference and to providing the greatest possible number of channels of communication for the different countries of the world. During recent years rapid developments have taken place in many aspects of telegraph and telephone engineering, notably in the design and application of automatic telephony, machine printing, telegraphy and the application of radio frequency signalling, both in the form known as “wireless telegraphy and telephony,’’ and when used in conjunction with land lines. To secure a greater number of channels than could under ordinary circumstances be provided, such developments as broadcasting and international communication by long and short waves have, in particular, made great progress during the last few years, and have an important bearing upon the future communications of this country. A close study will be made of all these developments and their relation to the ultimate expansion of New Zealand telegraph and telephone services. The economic aspect of the department's telegraph and telephone extension and maintenance works will also receive full consideration, as well as the methods adopted in the prosecution of these. Mr Gibbs will spend a portion of his time in the United Kingdom in collaboration with the engineers of the British Post Officeand the manufacturers of New Zealand telegraph and telephone equipment, and will secure first-hand knowledge of the processes involved in the manufacture of telegraph and telephone apparatus and material.