KEEPING IN TOUCH

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 June 1933, Page 8

KEEPING IN TOUCH

j DELEGATES TO LONDON. | DAILY WIRELESS MESSAGES. Throughout the voyage- to London \of the New Zealand delegation to the World Economic Conference tho memi bers of the party were kept well informed with the trend of affairs in the Dominion by means of a daily wireless message. The Postmaster- • General, Hon. Adam Hamilton, stated on Thursday evening at Wellington that adequate arrangements were made by the Post and Telegraph Delon Ym-up to enable the Prime Minis ,;hf .Pit. Hen. G. W. Forbes, and 1 ■ h ' .’1 nister of Industries and Com.mthe Hon. R. Masters, and their ro _ be- kept in tonch with happenings in New Zealand during the wno:e pivnod of the voyage. Since the departure of the Rangitata from Wellington on May 12 the Prime Minister and party have been supplied with a daily wireless ines-r-ag? containing New Zealand news. ’This was made possible by the fact ■that the Rangitata is equipped with a ■short-wave wireless' installation which enabled two-wav communication to be kent between the vessel and the radio station at Wellington throughout the whole period, of the jo-rney. “This,” ,sa : d Mr Hamilton, “mav be regarded 1 as' .striking evidence of the utility of modern wireless transmission, and is also an indication of the part that radio transmission continues to play in! ! removing much of the isolation former-i Ily associated with lengthy sea Toy-] 1 vges.”