WIRELESS STATIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10197, 5 July 1911, Page 1

WIRELESS STATIONS.

PROGRESS OF THE INSTALLATIONS. [From Ocr Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, July 3. Owing to continued delay in the delivery of an essential, piece of apparatus, it was not deemed advisable to open a wireless telcgraoh station at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, for commercial use a.t the beginning of tbe month, as was at first intended. Tbe plant can even now be depended upon to do good work, but it lacks the receiver of tho Tele-fun ken pattern, which is required to make the installation a complete one under the system. The receiver at present in use is only regarded as a makeshift. The new one is expected almost any day, and as soon as- it comes to •l;and the station will be available for general use. Now that the Wellington station is to all intents and purposes complete for the time being, the officials are making preparations- for the erection of the Christchurch installation. Mr Oi'chiston, Chief Telegraph Engineer, went to Christchurch for the purpose at the end of last week and during his visit will fix the site for the station there, (t is considered probable that tho idea of putting the station at Sumner will now be abandoned, and that the plant will be erected on the roof of the Christchurch Post Office. The successful working of the temporary station at the Wellington Post Office, even though surrounded completely by hills, is said to have influenced this decision, &nd it is believed that a station at Christchurch will do all that is required. The Wellington plant is to be removed later to the Tinauori hills, but the reasons prompting this step are not present in the southern city. No further work lias been done on the site of the high-power station at Doubtless Bay, but the contractors are pushing on with their preparations, and the actual erection should be put in hand very shortly. The station is not actually at Doubtless Bay, but at n place called Awanui. some . seven miles away, so that when it is opened it will be known bv the latter name.