WIRELESS CONTRACT.
£ , : WHY IT WAS HURRIED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ London, November 20. The Parliamentary Select Committee set up to inquire regarding the contraot between the Marconi Wireless Company and tho Britisli Post Office, continued its sittings. Sir Alexander King, General Secretary to the Post Office, was recalled. He said the contract did not confer on the Marconi Company a fragment of a monopoly. The reason for hurry was tho danger of being forestalled.'•'Where a Jong-distance station was already established, it was impossible to put another anywhere in tho 'Vic{«ity^for f W%:'distlaii<?& wave-lengths; Tho : chairman- read a letter from tho president of the Federal Wireless Company'of the United States;.'stating,'thatthat company -was using Ihe Poiilsen system, and maintaining constant communication between San Francisco and Honolulu—day. and night.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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125WIRELESS CONTRACT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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