EMPIRE WIRELESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1923, Page 3

EMPIRE WIRELESS.

A SLID! ANTI AI. MOVE. A I.’STUA MAN AM) N .7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day al !).I6 a.m.) LONDON. April 2iv in an interview in the ".Morning Post” Sir Joynson Hicks denied the Post Office's policy in regard to Empire wireless was in any respect dilatory. 'I here had been delays, but t hey had nothing to do with the Post Office, which had to hoar the sins of successive Governments, whose wireless policy was by no means consistent. Tlie failure to pro'-erd with the scheme of lIUII was partly due to a desire of the Dominions to have more direct communication and parti.' to tiie limiiicial .stringency. The experts accordingly reconsidered die problem anil in view of the development oi the high power ihermiome valve, they prepared plans for a British station of double the size otigiiially eonti inplated, ciiiial.il'' , I diiecl vnmimmieati in with Austialia. 1 mini and South Africa.. Tin- Post Office immediately prepared detailed -predications ami 111.- orders would have been placed long ago if tlie new Government bad not desired lo consider the whole, question afresh. Only last month the Post Office received orders t > proceed with the British station. Orders hao been placed for masls >_’!) feet high and the work of const met ion will he proceeded with as quickly as possible. 1 decided to make the flower even greater than the Planning Commission proposed last year. The stations will he second to none in tlie world. Meanwhile the Post Office i-, operating stations at Oxford end ( aim. If they had not been completed, and a -uu-

stantia! expenditure incurred, it would have hern wasted. It Is true Cairo is not paying its way. We never expected it would, hut it is a valuable link of commtmii alien wltn file East. The Oxford station is paying alt expenses and dealing with eighty thousand paid words weekly, ami tile pic s service is superior to any service of i.s kind in the world. Cabinet lias decided ilia! private enterprise will not be debarred, from providing wireless oomiutniie.iiiun beyond the. Mother Country and Dominions, Inti licenses aie not yet is-tied as the Marconi Company desired a closer knowledge of the Got ernmeul'.- p. iiev and their counter proposal ate now receiving the Government's eotisiderai ion. SIB. G. ISAAC’S VIEW. (Received this day at 11.16 a.m.) LON iit IN. April 26. Kir Godfrey Isaacs. Managing Director of Marconi's Wireless Company, cemmeuting on Sir .fnyiisoo Hicks, interview, states flicks ill taking office lost no time in conferring with ns upon the future working if high power wireless stations. Questions which we considered and proposals we made to him have a considerable importance ami n.itotally require careful Govern Oicol coosjifcra tion, but I lad eve Sir .loyusoii Hicks will quickly come to a decision. The proposals are of a nature to ensure the closest co-opentinn between post stations and those we shall erect, with a view to malting Britain the centre of the finest scheme of the wo: Id-wide wireless com mini but ions.