ETHERGRAM FROM MAIL BOAT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1040, 1 February 1911, Page 6

ETHERGRAM FROM MAIL BOAT.

DISTANT 780 MILES. AVhat tho establishment of a wireless station in AVellington means was forcibly demonstrated last night when (at about 10 o'clock) tho experimental plant, now in operation here, picked up tho Union Company's liner Aorangi, en Toute from San Francisco to AVcllington. The vessel was then 7SO miles off Wellington Heads. This must bo considered a very good achievement for. the staff who havo been working experimentally . under the chief electrician (Mr. Buckley) in their humble quarters on tho top floor of Nathan's The message received from tho Aorarigi stated that the vessel may bo expectd to arrive in port at 7 a.m. tomorrow.

A Postal official, who is immediately concerned in the handling of tho mails, states that the establishment of a wireless station in AVellington has already saved tho Department a great deal of expense, as they" are able, in caso of niail-earrf'ing vessels fitted with wireless, to know exactly when tho men aro required to be ordered down for duty. Theer wero times when the Post Office had oderod'a number of hands down houis before a steamer had arrived, and had had to recompense them for tiino thus wasted in awaiting tho arrival of the mail steamers.