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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1984, 21 January 1907, Page 4

SMALL FREEHOLDERS AND TENANT FARMERS. Landlord speakers toll us that “it would bo unjust mid cruel to tax tlio poor working man twenty shillings in tlio pound on tlio site of his house, which site ho has bought out of the fruits of many years of hard toil.” What do they care for him? Do they not live in idleness and affluence at his oxponso? Do they not afflict him with the hardest tod for a miserable pittance? They are thinking of themselves. I defy any landlord to prove that a man who owns no inorb land than the site of bis cottago or the sites of half-a-dozen cottages in any of our cities would bo any worse oif if land values were taxed 20s to the pound. This is not a matter of opinion. It is a question of fact. Every political economist knows tlint small owners of land would he very much better off by the imposition of the singlo tax. As for the tenant farmer, the Single-Tax on tlio unimproved value of his farm would be his rent, taxes, and rates, and it would not amount to a third of what he now pays in rout, taxes, and rates. In addition to this groat gain, ho would have a very much hotter homo market for his produce. And in addition to all tins gain, lie would bo paying a great deal less for his farming implements and all that lie uses and wears. Why the tenant farmers ought to ho enthusiastic Single-Taxors, for tlioy stand to gain so much every way. Even the fanners who have no landlords would gain by the Single-Tax. In most cases the tax would ho small and insignificant when compared with their gains. Mr Massey himself would bo bonefittod by the SingleTax, and yet ho talks of it as a measure that would ruin the agriculturists 1 Who would lose by tho SingleTax? Only those who ought to lose: only those who live in luxury on unjust gain. But they would still bo rich, and they would no longer be taxed on any of their personal property. Is the progress of this country to bo forever retarded in order that a few of its inhabitants may have a superfluity of riches?

ELECTRICAL MAGICIAN. MARCONI’S NEW RIVAL. One of tho most distillguisliod scientific audiences scon in a London hall for sonio time attended tiio first public demonstration given by Mr. Voldemar Poulsen of his new system of wireless telegraphy recently. Mr. Poulsen is an energetic young man with a largo head that will no doubt soon be scheduled by the phrenologists on the list of their triumphant examples, and as a lectin or ho deals in kilowatts, selectivities, holometric systems, shunt circuits, and other mystifying things in a most superior manner. No quarter v/as shown to the lay members of his audience. Ho probably felt in something of a holiday mood, for ho lias just made a fortune b.v tho sale of liis patent rights in Great Britain and America to a syndicate of which Lord Armstrong is tho principal. Tho Poulffen telegraphy, its Englislio owners believe, is going to beat every other system at present in use both for commercial and naval purposes. The electric waves produced by these older systems might', Mr. Poulsen said, bo compared with the sound waves, produced by a pistol shot, while the continuous or “undamped” waves yielded by his apparatus might, be likened to the waves of sound produced by a tuning fork maintained in continuous vibration. If such a tuning fork were placed near a piano, only that string of the piano would respond which had-the corresponding rate of vibration, whereas the pistol shot would sot all the strings in vibration. About seven years ago another inventor, Mr. W. Duddell ,discovered that an. electric arc could bo made to yield musical sounds, and in the course of exjieriments be obtained oscillations amounting to between 30,000 and •10,000 per second. But for the purpose of wireless telegraphy this rate was too slow. Air. Poulsen’s success 13 a result mainly of bis having found a means of increasing the osciliations to 1,000,000 per second. Thus, it appears, be lias overcome in one operation some of the most serious difficulties which have hitherto troubled the inventors of spark telegraphy. Tho advantages of the new system are summarised as follow:—1. Extreme accuracy of tuning, whereby multiplex telegraphy is rendered practically available to an almost unlimited extent, and interference between numerous lines of communication may bo readily avoided. 2. Increased freedom from interferences due to atmospheric electricity. 3'. Great increase in efficiency, due in the first place to accuracy of tuning, on dsecondly to the low potential of the electrical surges impressed upon the aerial radiator. The system is now working satisfactorily between Copenhagen and North Shields, a distance of 530 miles, and it is calculated that communication across the Atlantic can be easily obtained with a power of about 10 kilowatts as soon as the necessary plant' can be ecerted. This anticipation is supported by Sir William Preece, tlio noted electrical expert, wlio was for seven years onginoor-in-chief to the Postal Department. He states practically that the new telegraphy will soon supersede all other systems unless they are considerably improved. Mr. Poulsen thinks it may bo found possible at no distant date, witli the aid of his undamped lyavos, to produce a wireless telephone. Air. Marconi's recent remark, when opposing somo of tlio restrictions imposed by the Berlin Convention that wireless telegraphy was only in its infancy, and that tho systems then before tlio public might be rendered obsolete at any moment, would seem to have been well founded. The advantage or having for naval and military .purposes a system incapablo of being tapped will bo of enormous advantage to those who prove themselves able to make tlio most effective use of it in war.

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