WIRELESS MATTERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20108, 29 March 1928, Page 7

WIRELESS MATTERS

QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE INTERCEPTION OF BEAM MESSAGES. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March 27. In the House of Commons, Sir William Mitchell-Thomson toold a questioner that he was aware that the Anglo-Australian and other wireless services were criticised on the ground of liability of interception of messages, but the beam service worked at such a high speed that interception was only possible by means of complicated and expensive receiving sets, worked by experts. He was not aware that certain persons, who possessed such instruments were in a |)osition to intercept messages. In answer to a question, he detailed the reductions in cable rates since the introduction of the beam services- He said that no statement of futuer rates was possible until the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference had renorted.

Sir Philip Cunliffc-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, stated that the wireless loop dicction finding system was being developed by the Air Ministry as an aid to air navigation. The Board of Trade was examining the results of those investigations w’ith a view to considering the question of establishing an experimental station in a position where its utility to shipping would be exemplified.