WIRELESS POLICY

Southland Times, Issue 19290, 8 July 1924, Page 5

WIRELESS POLICY

TRENCHANT CRITICISM. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 6. The Observer, in an editorial headed “Wireless Scandal,” says it would be difficult for anyone investigating impartially the evidence of the last six years not to conclude that Britain’s settled policy towards overseas communications has been neglected, fortified by deliberate obstruction in the utilisation of wireless. Britain is not first, but last among the principal nations of the world. The dominions do not share this responsibility. They have been ready to match Britain’s best pace. They have had to watch impotently and waste precious years through Britain’s lethargy’ and mismanagement. It is a grave decision to make the Post Office responsible for Imperial wireless connections, but as the alternative is further delay and loss, we are forced to acquiesce in the policyadopted.