NEW ZEALAND WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND WIRELESS.

TWO HIGH AND FIVE. LOW-POWER STATIONS. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Stratford, January 26. '"I am pleased to announce," said the Prime Minister, speaking at Stratford,

"that after lengthy and troublesome negotiations a satisfactory offer has been received for the erection of, two highpower and five low-power wireless telegraph stations. One high-power station will be erected at Doubtless Bay, and the other at the Bluff. Each will be capable of keeping up communication with the continent of Australia. The low-power-stations will bo erected, one each at Gisborne, New Plymouth, Christchurch, .and Wellington, and also one on board the Government steamer Tutanekai. Experiments which: havo been conducted by officers of the Telegraph Department at Wellington havo satisfied me that the smaller stations can conveniently be erected on tho roofs above the post offices at the places named, a course which will materially reduce the cost of upkeep, as the stations will b6 under the immediate, charge of the postmasters. The high-power stations, however, will bo independent units, staffed by special staffs and remaining open day and night. When tho proposed stations are erected, every corner of tho coast and the oceans surrounding New Zealand within a considerable radius will bo within the field of our wireless telegraph system. I am glad to be able to say that the cost of working will be reasonable and well within expectations. Tho details have been referred to the. law officers of the Crown to have the necessary ■ agreement prepared, and upon this being signed I will then be in a position to give further information to the public."