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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 156, 4 July 1934, Page 10

Progress in Australia. Provision will be made in the Federal Estimates for 1934-35 for the expenditure of approximately £250,000 on the establishment of seven regional wireless stations in Australia. It has already been decided that stations will he built at Grafton (N.S.W.), Nhill Victoria), Sale (Victoria), Townsville (Queensland). Katanning (West Australia). The location of the remaining two has not yet been fixed, but it is expected that? one will be placed in the Nhill-Murtoa area and the other at Orange, in New South Wales. The decision to build the stations was made by the Government a few months ago, and for some time extensive research work has been carried out in the localities in which it is proposed to establish them. Constructional work will be commenced as soon as the expenditure has been approved by Parliament, land it is anticipated that all the stations will be operating by the end of June next year. In a recent speech the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, Mr. Lyons, said the Federal Government realised the value of broadcasting, and in consequence followed a progressive policy which was aimed at the provision of better programmes and wider facilities. Xew stations had been or were being «• rec ted in remote centres, n.nd to-day Australia was probably better catered for in its broadcasting services than country of similar size and population.

Telephotograph Service. A transcontinental telephoto-graph service, which will carry news and feature photographs into newspaper offices, is being established by the Associated Press of America. Plans for the service have been made with great care, and it is now possible to announce that telephotography on a scale never before attempted will be a reality within the next few months. Telephotography itself is not new, although no facilities have been in use in the U.S.A, for about a year. But a na-tion-wide sending and receiving leased wire telephotograph, operated 24 hours of the day, directed by a Press Association, is history-making. The service is being organised on that basis, making it possible to send a picture from any point by the wires to all other points at any time the photograph becomes available. The machines operate in daylight, sending photos directly from the positive phc-tographic print and receiving in the form of negatives. They are designed for simple operation, and trained men will be in charge at all telephotographic stations to handle the transmissions, etc. About 240 square feet of floor space is required for the equipment, with an adjoining dark, room for the development of the negatives as they are .received.