WELLINGTON UP-TO-DATE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 4

WELLINGTON UP-TO-DATE.

. ITS . WIEELESS INSTALLATION.Good work has been done by the chiefelectrician (Mr. : Buckley) and his staff - in: connection with preparing the GeneralPost' Office for the reception o£ the new; wireless plant that is being supplied ,by the United Wireless Telegraph Company of America. Up till the present a small four-wire ."spread": has 1 done. duty 'for a temporary plait at the Post Offioe, but, this has been done i'iway- with, and its place -is • being • taken by three! separate . "spreads" of six wines each. One of .tlie&e'-"spreadsalready-installed, andit 1 extends' from'-thi' Post 'Office toiver'to Nathan's. Buildings. Another ' extends* - from the Government Insurance Build'ings to tho tower, and the third, which, has yet to be erected, will be stretched across from the tower ;to a. pole to • be-, erected on the Harbour Board's threes story brick shed opposite the G.P.0.. : The vm plant,. which ■ was. ordered through/ the United Wireless Company's' representative, Mr. A. Kbell, now in:! Wellington, will' arrive by the Maitaij' from San Francisco on Thursday. next v and the work of installing it will ba, pushed ' forward without delay, eo - that? ■ it is reasonable, to" suppose that it mil; ba in'.working order uy the middle of next week. It is hoped,, bythose, ia charge, to be able to communicate with; vessels up to 500 miles at night and about 200 miles during the daytime. . The new plant, which is a ;two kilowatt; one, is really capable of operating fop. 2000 miles under suitable conditions ats night-time, but for some reason (chiefljr, owing.to Wellington's geographical position, it' is said) the' range for Bending and receiving' messages will not be sa effective. Soon, however, the publio wili3 have ,th« novel experience of being able-, to communicate with-friends who are on, vessels miles away, and those on board*, in turn, will be able,to have New land, news conveyed to them long before) they see the daily papers.