RADIO CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1927, Page 2

RADIO CONFERENCE

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. President Coolidge, who opened the International Radio Telegraph Conference, urged the delegates (who represented fifty countries) to discuss the problems candidly and he generous in co-operation and conciliation. He declared the United States readiness to aid in solving the problems of the Conference, which was expected to devote over a month to tho task, bringing the 1912 Conference up io uate. President Coolidge said: “In many fields our country claims the right to lie master of its, own development. It cordially concedes the same right to all others, but in the radio field the most complete development, both at home and abroad, lies in mutual concession and co-operation. Your main object is to raise this great industry into the realm of beneficient public service.” The President pointed out tho great part radio plays in military defence, navigation, commerce, education, musical and theatrical entertainmeii'ts. He remarked that undeveloped portions of the globe suffered from lack of communications and radio offered a means to reach and develop them. Air Coolidge added: “To use radio does not require elementary education. Its main weakness appears to lie in the fact that it produces no permanent record for future consideration.’’ Air Brown is attending the Conference on behalf of Australia.

Mr Coolidge will send a letter to Mr Bruce in the air mail while the Postmnstc'-Ci) era! will forward one to the Commonwealth Postmas or General, Mr Gibson. Glover declared ihe opportunity will lie given the public to” send letters to Australia by plane, the selection being made from as many different sources as possible.

Mr Hoover told the Radio Convention that the air must be policed and said: “We are most seriously threatened with chaos of unordmated traffic. The regulation of traffic upon channels of ether are as essential as the regulation of traffic upon our crowded streets, but equally in both eases the purpose must be to expedite movement and •stimulate progress, not to retard it. Tf we be sucessful, we shall have contributed to the march of international commerce.”

NEW YORK. Oct. 4. Mr Hoover has l«en elected President of the International Radio and Telegraph Conference. G. ,T. Hoofker. Inspector-General of Posts and Telegraphs in the Netherlands, proposed the nomination, which" was accepted by acclammntion. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. In the course of bis speech at the opening of the Radio Conference, Mr v-oolidge declared radio, having become a great world influence, must be use to promote friendships and understanding rather than ill-will and dissension among the nations.