TELEPHONE LINK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 167, 19 July 1935, Page 9

TELEPHONE LINK

NORTH AND SOUTH ISLANDS 1 I’er Press Association. J ( 'll IMST< H I RCH, July 17. ’lhe relative advantages c.4‘ cable lelejdiune ami radio telephone com munication over Cook Strait will be studied bv the two New Zealand engineers who are being sent to England, the. Director-General cd Postal Services, Mr. G. AleNamara, to-day. Mr. McNamara said a new line of conuiiu nication was needed between the North and South Islands, first be- • ansi' <<| the vcdunie of busin-ess and, secondly, because the existing cables W'K' getting old. Tc-o much risk ”1 accident was involved in under-sea cable communication, ami the cost of mainti mim e was high. ‘‘l. have a feeling,” he said, “that cables have become out of date for use in particular services such as Cook •Strait.” He indicated that the New Zealand engineers would specially in ve.stig.-iie the j-ecently-pstablishcd nine channel micro wave wireloss comTiiuni cation between Scotland ami Irelami. I his was entirely new ami obviou. I ■ I lie < o.i would bp well iiclow that, oi a, submariup cable system. flic ci', dil ions ( .\cr the Irish Sea were, hr ' • liev ril. much the same as those over llcibert also a millionaire, but who is more intvr*- led in writing articles on snuff than on love. tier s<;-n, Frank Alcirugh, four limes married and divorced, falls for the hotel hostess, and Hiv daughter falls in love with the room clerk in the person of Dick Powell.