WIRELESS AT RAROTONGA.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2842, 5 August 1916, Page 9

WIRELESS AT RAROTONGA.

/ '• —r v '. v . i STATION TO BE ESTABLISHED. The Government has. authorised ;the erection of a- wireless station at Rarottnga-. TTiis information' was furnished to' tho House yesterday- by the Pdst-master-General -(Sir Joseph .Ward). The station, he ..said, would'he put in- hand, "as : soon'.'as possible,: .but/ the increased oostof material-pii "account of the war. might cause some delay, 'before -the work was'commenced,, or' any particular class of wireless. Under ordinary conditions it' ought''to "be; possible:'!to establish .a wireless station .at Rarbtonga for-,£5000. 'The Post •. and : Telegraph- Department would be responsible for. getting the work' done, and', the Cook Islands; Government would haT6: to- find .the money. The Post -and .Telegraph,.. Department would' ■.invite competition • among the different ■wireless companies that were British, so far.as any of them could be, called British. The Department would not . try to negotiate with any particular company to establish any particular '• system :bf . wireless. The Department had been making inquiries from the makers of a very modern scheme in San Francisco, and also from the Marconi Company. This wireless station at , Rarotonga would be another link in the chain of wireless-communication, in the Pacific, and an invaluable part in the scheme of Empire, wireless. It would, bring Earotonga into close, communication, not only with: New Zealand/ but with Samoa,Fiji,..and;, other, islapdo..