SPANNING COOK STRAIT
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES (Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, Inst night. The relative advantages of cable, lolephono and radio telephone communication over Cook Strait will be studied by two New Zealand engineers who are being sent to England shortly. The Director-General of Postal Services. Mr. G. McNamara, gave some details to-day of the proposed investigation. He said a new line of common - cation was needed between the North and the South Island, first because ot the volume of business and secondly because the existing cables were getting old. Too much risk of accident was involved in undersea cable communication and the cost of maintenance was high. “I have a feeling,” lie. said, “that cables have become out of date for use in particular services such as Cook Strait.” Mr. McNamara indicated that New Zealand engineers would specially inves tigato the recently established nine channel micro wave wireless communication between Scotland and Northern Ireland. This was entirely new and obviously tho cost would be well below that of tho submarine cable system. Conditions over tho Irish Sea were, lie believed, much the same as those over Cook -Strait.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 7
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