DAILY NEWS ON SHIPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 9

DAILY NEWS ON SHIPS

WIRELESS ON THE PACIFIC.

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. Recently through, action taken by the Mew Zealand■•Government and the Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., a new senTce was established from the Dominion '.'in intercolonial and transPacific passenger ships. It is the first of Us kind in the Southern Pacific, and has been greatly appreciated by the* travelling public. Both tho PostmasterGeneral and the manager of the Amalgamated Wireless have received numbers of communications to that effect. The 1 company also sends news from Canada and Australia to shipping interested. The New Zealand news is published, along with news from Australia and general world's news, in a paper called "The Wireless News," printed on hoard the ships every day, including Sundays. New Zealanders travelling to and from their own country appreciate the, service, ns do also commercial men and tourists coming to New Zealand, who are anxious to get as much information as possible regarding the country they are about to visit. On the ships referred to the company has its own operators, who arrange for the publishing of tho paper, which sells on board at 3d a copy. The'undertaking is purely a, commercial one, and all the charges in connection with the collection and dissemination of the news are borne by the company. So successful has it been thai it is likely to be extended to other ships trading to New Zealand, and perhaps also to l tho Chatham Is'iands, Rarotonga and Tonga. The people of the Chathams, who are isolated in regard to the news of the day, cue very anxious to get the scrvico anil the probability is that they will bo allowed to take it at a. nominal sum of a few pounds per year, charged with, a view to preserving the copyright Tonga is also anxious to get the service, and it would be very acceptable to Rarotonga and Mangaia, where another wireless station is in course of construction