COSTLY SPEECH
£25 A MINUTE BY WIRELESS. London, November 1. A twelve minutes’ speech, wirelessly telephoned from Ottawa by the Minister of Commerce to Cardiff on the occasion of the Empire Exhibition at Cardiff, where Canada is the biggest single exhibitor, cost £25 a minute. The speech was telephoned from Ottawa to New York, wirelessed from Rocky Point, picked up in Fifeshire and transmitted by landline to London, where it was amplified, and thence Cardiff, where it was heard perfectly by 5000 visitors to the exhibition. —Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20633, 3 November 1928, Page 7
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