VOICE OVER TASMAN

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 7

VOICE OVER TASMAN

■.• . • .■ .’I SYDNEY TO NEW PLYMOUTH. . J '-• RADIO ' TELEPHONE CALL. -;. -. A call lodged at Sydney for a New Plymouth telephone subscriber on Thurs- > day night provided as satisfactory a conversation as the average toll connection with Wellington. Advised by cable that a friend in Sydney would call her at ‘' 8.30 o’clock, a young New Plymouth . . woman spent an excited few hocus wait- • X ing for her first overseas telephone conversation. The actual experiment itself was a rather prosaic ratter. With the preliminary of sending a mechanic to make sure that the New Plymouth' installation was in order, the '. a overseas telephone department at Wellington merely called the local number ', when advice was received from Sydney, and after taking a few adjusting voice tests made the 1200-mile wireless, link. Every word from Sydney was heard clearly despite a faint fading. New Ply- ' mouth did not, however, transmit quite so well. Telephone officials-state that transoceanic calls are now by no means unusual at New Plymouth, although there are not now so many calls as there were > ' when the Australian link was first established a little over three years ago.