THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13286, 11 December 1911, Page 2

THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.

(Press Association—Copthighj.j Melbourne, Dec tf.

Mr Frascr, Postmaster-General, an--nounced in the Federal House that after protracted negotiations the Uovernmetit was unable to arrive at xt position justifying tho payment of patent rights on either the Marconi or TclefunKeii wireless systems. Ho said that the urgency of establishing wireless: did rot justify delaying longer, aJid the Government intended to erect stations round the coast, bsgtnning at Melbourne and then Hobart, and also to connect Port Moresby either with Cooktown or Thursday Island. The Government might be compelled to defend the system, which i:i the name of tho Commonwealth its expert would register. If it was found that it infringed on other systems the Government would accept the responsibility of the payment for such infringement.