COMMUNICATION BY RADIO

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 4

COMMUNICATION BY RADIO

AUSTRALIA AND DOMINION. SERVICE IN NEAR FUTURE. The .establishment of a radio telephone service between Australia and New Zealand may shortly be anticipated. Referring to radio telegraph and telephone services, the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department says: —“An outstanding radio event was the inauguration on April 30, 1930, of the public', radio-telephone service between Great Britain- : and Aiistralia. Since its introduction the service has been extensively availed of, proving that the charge, £2 a minute, which may appear high in comparison with those levied in. respect of short inland service, are no obstable when the prompt transaction of business and urgent- social communications are concerned. Arrangements have been proceeding for the institution •of a radio-telephone service between New. Zealand and Australia, which will in addition furnish facilities for communication with the United Kingdom and other European countries. “ft is expected that the New Zea-land-Australia service will be established shortly. • “The New Zealand radio stations continue to give excellent service, and radio communication generally in New Zealand is keeping well abreast of modern advances. The increased reliability of the short-wave radio-telegraph servicebetween Wellington and the-Pacific Islands has • enabled the high-pov. - longwave, station, at .Awanui to be closed. A similar direct..service between New Zealand and Rarotonga was inaugurated on Nlay 12, 1930. The-value of radio communication m the event of the dislocation of land, lines was exemplified during the earthquake period..in Juiie, 1929, ami for some time radio provided the only reliable means of communication .between certain affected areas and the. outside world.”