RADIO TELEPHONE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 9

RADIO TELEPHONE

DOAIINION AND AUSTRALL.

SIR J. G. WARD’S STATEMEN? WELLINGTON, Alay 2. Regarding the cable message front Sydney that the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless was hoping to establish a radio telephone service between Australia and New Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward, by telephone from Rotorua, stated to-day that tho Government of New Zealand had been in communication with the Australian postal authorities since September, and that negotiations are almost completed for the introduction of a radio telephone service between Wellington and Sydney. Alost of the material is already at. hand, and the balance is expected within the next two months. It ia hoped that this telephone service will be ot great assistance to business men in New Zealand, as it would enable any business man connected with tho telephone in Wellington and perhaps elsewhere, to communicate with any business man in Sydney. It is also hoped that later those who wish to communicate with London could be switched through at Sydney to the new telephone service opened the other day. LONDON PRESS COMMENTS. VALUE IN DEVELOPMENT.

LONDON, May 1. Tho Australia London telephonj test is given prominence by the nows papers. The Times, in an editorial, etatei that it is now possible to converse overseas by telephone, to ask a question, make a suggestion, and get an immediate reply. It will give statesmen a fuller opportunity of establishing and maintaining intimate personal contact which the constitutional developments of the past decade have made necessary if tho Empire is to endure, and the development of methods of rapid and easy consultation is a political necessity in these days when all questions of Imperial policy have to bo settled by consultation between the different Governments. EXTENSION TO NEW ZEALAND. Received Alav 2, 10.42 p.m. LONDON, Alay 1. Officials in the Postmaster-General’» i department predict an early extension of the radiophone to Nev Zealand. Aluch progress lias already been made in negotiations bet ween Australian and. New Zealand authorities.