PHONE SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1930, Page 6

PHONE SERVICE

FOR THE PACIFIC,

(Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY, March 20,

Mr E. T. Fisk, Managing Director of Amalgamated Wireless Ltd., has forecasted a radio-telephone service linking Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Java shortly. He said he understood that the New Zealand Government would co-operate at an early date. The English end of the beam service was in the hands of the company which had taken over the cables.

Mr Fisk added: “The, cable in Australia must bo controlled by us. When that comes into operation, the Australian cable will be under Australian control and management. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 21.

Air Fisk explained that the wireless and cable services of Britain were controlled by Imperial and International Communications Limited. That put us in the position of having to conduct the beam service in competition with cables owned by' the Company which controlled the other end of the beam service. That position could not go on permanently. We in Australia could not control what was going on in Britain, but we could control what was going on in Australia. With the concurrence of the Federal Government a satisfactory agreement had now been reached. The effect thereof was that Australia’s end of tlie beam service will, for the first time in history, be controlled in Australia.