THE SINGING SPARK.
(Per Press. Association.) I this day. I Tlie wireless operator of the s.s. Mantua, Avhich arrived from London yesterday, Avas successful in maintaining fairly constant communication Avith shore stations, and a record of world's happenings Svas secured. An interesting connection Avas made on New Year's Eve, when the operator at Cocos Island Avas spoken, and greetings were exchanged. Although the . station ■on the island is a very small-poAvered one, the distance over which messages ti^elled was 1002 miles. On 'January 18 the operator got into touch with the Suiva station, a distance pf 1030,-flile)^ ,'„' . , ;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12666, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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97THE SINGING SPARK. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12666, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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