OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1928, Page 4

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

AIR MAIL TRAFFIC.

STEADY GROWTH OF BRITISH SERVICES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 31. The Postmaster-General announces a steady growth in British air mail traffic during the quarter ended June last. During the quarter nearly 14,030 pounds weight of parcels were sent by air to Germany, as' against 9000 pounds during tbe corresponding quarter of 1927, and over 0000 pounds to Paris, compared with 5000 pounds. Letter traffic to 'Franco and Germany showed increases of 80 per cent and

, 50 per cent respectively, while over | 4630 pounds of letter mails wore disI patched by the Cairo-Basra service, compared with about 3000 pounds in ! the corresponding quarter of 1927, or an .increase of over 51) per cent. Since the opening of this year's summer season several new air services have been made avnibale. the most notable instances being the new air letter service to Persia, in direct communication with the London-Moseow air service, a. service in Peru for letters and parcels to Jquitos and certain oilier parts, and the recently established service to South America, via France and Dakar. Air parcels services .have also been opened to Norway. Sweden and Denmark, and to Austria, Czeeho-Slovakia and Hungary. All these services represent r really appreciable gain in time ever ordinary routes, in some mom as mud as several weeks.

The public is evidently realising that air parcel services oiler not only rapid transit, but also speedy <learane> through the customs in the country of destination.

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY. ENGLISH INVENTORS’ CLAIM. RUGBY, Aug. 31. As the result of prolonged experiments, two young Englishmen, named Oliver and Becker, claim to have discovered a method for taking snapshot or time-exposure photographs with an ordinary camera, in an quantity, in natural colours. It is stated that any number of prints an he made from the negatives, and that development, and printing takes no longer than with ordinary photographs. The new process will bo on view at the Pliotogrnphes’ Association Exhibition in London next week.