TELEPHONY TEST

Southland Times, Issue 21073, 3 May 1930, Page 7

TELEPHONY TEST

LONDON PRESS COMMENT. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, May 1. The telephony test between London and Australia is given prominence by the newspapers. The Times, in an editorial, states: “It is now possible to converse overseas by telephone, to ask a question, to make a suggestion, and to get an immediate reply. It will give statesmen a fuller opportunity of establishing and maintaining that intimate personal contact which the constitutional developments of the past decade have made necessary if the Empire is to endure. The development of methods of rapid and easy consultation is a political necessity in these days when all questions of Imperial policy have to be settled by consultation between the different Governments.” ' NEGOTIATIONS ALMOST COMPLETE STATEMENT BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 2. Regarding the cable message from Sydney that the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless was hoping to establish a radiotelephone service between Australia and New Zealand, the Prime Minister by telephone from Rotorua, stated to-day that the Government in New Zealand had been in communication with the Australian postal authorities since September and that negotiations are almost completed for the introduction of a radio-telephone service between Wellington and Sydney. Most of the material is already at hand and the balance is expected within the next two months. It is hoped this telephone service will be of great assistance to business men in New Zealand, as it would enable any business man connected with the telephone in Wellington and perhaps elsewhere to communicate with any business man in Sydney. It is also hoped that later those who wish to communicate with London could be switched through at Sydney to the new telephone service opened the other day.