WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143767, 16 April 1912, Page 3

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

THE MARCONI APPEAL. Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright MELBOURNE, April 15. In granting the Marconi Company an order to inspect tho Commonwealth wireless stations, the judge made a stipulation that the report must be kept secret till the case was brought before the Court. The company was given till to-day to accept, but refused upon the judge declining to vary the stipulation. BRITISH EMPIRE STATIONS. A cablegram received on Monday stated that the British Government showed much more interest in wireless telegraphy than in oceanic cables. Recently the Postmaster-General refused to support a project for a State owned Atlantic cable. Quite a different state of affairs prevails with regard to wireless telegraphy. Tho London Times states that a circular issued on March 7 by Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Coy. announced that tho Postmaster-General had accepted tho company’s terms for the construction of all the long-dis-tance wireless stations' which will be required withou the next few years for tho Imperial wireless scheme. The company will proceed immediately with tho erection of the six stations, London, Egypt, Aden, Bangalore. Pretoria and Singapore. Plans are already being prepared, and the stations are to be completed in about 12 months’ time. The erection of other stations, it is anticipated, will follow in tho immediate future. Tho circular describes as follows tho terms on which tho company undertake tho work:

The stations will bo operated by the company for accounts of the Government for the first six months, and thereafter by the Government, The company will receive a payment of £60,000 for each station, exclusive of site, foundations for machinery and buildings, and the buildings themselves, which, if so required, will bo constructed by the company at cost price for account of the Governments. The terms rather provide that the company shall receive 10 per cent, of the gross receipts of all the long-dis-tanco stations so erected for the term of the agreement, which is £8 years from the date of the opening to service of the first three stations.

The Government will have power to end the agreement at the expiration of 18 years, but in that event they would cease to have the right of use of any of the company’s patented processes or machinery. The circular points out that the contract, being for a period of years, will require to bo ratified by Parliament, and that the erection of stations at Bangalore and South Africa will of course ho. subject to the formal approval of the respective Governments of India and South Africa.