THE PREMIER ON "WIRELESS."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 5

THE PREMIER ON "WIRELESS."

STATIONS FIXED. ( . (By Telezrapli.—Press Association.) Dunedin, January 11. { A,' fortnight ago,- the-scheme by which it isproposed i- to.; bring,; New > Zealand; Australia, and. tho Pacific. Islands into communication' .with--each 'other aid the outside.-.world ,by/ means'of wireless'. tele■graphy,: was - made -and . aroused a -good deal ..of interest..- To-day .in the courseof ;ah 'interview,' Sir Joseph Ward .made, an;'important-statement : to ..'ah "(Jtago Daily Times" reporter. ;■ He .said ;that, . in.,addition ,to arrangements made tor the establishment ; of- ;a comprehensive wireless, system in the Pacific, which .prOvided 'for ..a ■ high power-' station- : .in doubtless Bay,' New Zealand would also require to establish a . high-power station in . the south, and a low-power station somewhere between this point and Doubtless 13ay. ...The lastnamed .station .would be :necossary. to• enable us' to? communicate .readily,..with steamers 'around : our; ;coast,..or;, coming .from-' Australia.,- The northern station would,be in touch with Sydney or' Fiji, . while.' the southern one,", having a range of 1200' miles or so, would communicate; ; with Melbourne or with ;Aucldahd. '.;It':;was' expected that, the intermediate-or' lqw-pdwer 'station ' would be established somewhere: in: the . vicinity .of..the Kaikoura. Mountains.; :By means of this; it . would be possible, during almost'any .condition -of-weather, to keep in regular communication L with all parts of the coast,. and coasting steamers running, through ■. Cook., Strait would. have easy communiwitibn with the -land at.all times 'without;having! [on : board •• a ■ highpower installation, which, as Sir- Joseph Ward expressed it,.'; "is; neither : customary.nor necessary." '. . ."It may, also be necessary,". continued Sir Joseph, "to have a station on one of tho. Pacifio Islands owned, by New Zealand, but : these are matters that. tiro to be gone intov specially., npiirt altogether from the general system which has been agreed upon. What we have' to. bo sure about is "to get- the most .up-to-date .system. that, it is possible .to' get.. Every care and ! effort. will be mado to/assure that. So ,far'.' ; as I 'know, there' will be comparatively; little delay in putting the whole -schemo. into operation." •• ■. 1