EMPIRE COMMUNICATION

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 9 August 1921, Page 1

EMPIRE COMMUNICATION

A CRITICAL EDITORIAL. Press Assn.—By Tel. —Copyright. LONDON, August 8. A “Daily Telegraph” leader on wireless communication wonders why the conference accepted a discredited

scheme which is so inadequate that Air Hughes reserved for Australia a complete freedom of action. “The scheme looks very like a project of little minds groping in the dark, whereas we need a bold scheme cvolvea by men of expert knowledge and wide vision. So far as Imperial communications ar6 concerned, the conference failed, especially in giving the consent to the Post Office remaining in charge of wireless developments. The result will probably be of further delay, and meantime our kith and kin overseas have to obtain what advantages or disadvantages they may, from the services being inaugurated in other countries. That is not the way to consolidate the Commonwealth which represents a distinctive phase of civilisation. There would have been some hope if an Imperial Board had been formed with power to mobilise the best scientific minds in order to speedily produce a swiftly-working, cheap system of wireless throughout the Empire. We are convinced that only in a free atmosphere' of science, in alliance with commerce, will the Empire obtain an adequate, swift, cheap, wireless communication.