WIRELESS TELEPHONE LINK

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1930, Page 10

WIRELESS TELEPHONE LINK

ITS VALUE TO THE EMPIRE.

By TelcErapb—Press Assn.—Copyright.

London, May 1.

Th© Australia-London telephony test is given prominence by ths 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 better opportunity of establishing and maintaining the 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.”

EXTENSION TO NE WZEALAND.

EARLY INTRODUCTION EXPECTED.

Wellington, May 2. Regarding the cable message from Sydney that the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless was hoping to establish a radio telephone service between Australia and New Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward, by telephone .from Rotorua, stated to-day that the Government of New Zealand had been in communication with the. Australian postal authorities since September, and that the negotiations were almost completed for the introduction of a radio telephone service between Wellington,and Sydney; Most of the material was already at hand, and the balance was expected within the next two months. It was hoped that the telephone service would be of great assistance to business men in New Zealand, as it would enable anv business man connected with the telephone in Wellington, and perhaps elsewhere, to communicate with any business man in Sydney. It .was also hoped that later those who wished to communicate with London could .be switched through at Sydney to the new telephone service opened' the other day.