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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1923, Page 11

In the Wireless Section of the SMI Francisco Examiner, dated June 3, thll* is a list of nearly 100 ships reported Ml communicating with San Franeietßi wireless stations during the previoua •• hours. Out of all those ships, ranging from 20,000 tons down to small steamers, the record operating dintaMß is credited to the s.s. Tahiti, of thn Union Steam Ship Company’s Traaa* z Pacific Royal Mail Service. The Tahiti which is fitted with Amalgamated WirM less equipment was communicating wiHi San Francisco over the remarkable distance of 4796 miles; The Tahiti is M consistent in breaking long-dis taanee cords that she is known to every winee less station in the Pacific and even baa yond, as a result of which the install—tion and the operators have been subject of favourable comment out a great section of the worldfn eilW less service. . <