WORLD’S TELEPHONE

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1930, Page 2

WORLD’S TELEPHONE

RUGBY AT THE EXCHANGE. Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, the Post-master-General speaking at the annual dinner of the Birmingham Civil Service recently, said that the Post Office had a large part to play in the future in Imperial questions. He continued :

“The latest work of the Post Office is in thp Imperial sphere, and consists in the development of a series of wireless telephone services by which conversations in the human voice will he conducted with the Dominions, The country possesses at Rugby the largest and most powerful wireless station in the world.

“Through that station the Post Office conducts a wireless telephone service between London and New York, which carries far more messages than any other commercial telephone service in the world.

“Tn May last we opened a direct service to Australia—which is the longest telephone link in_ the world—and arrangements are being made to extend this service to New Zealand at an early date. Canada is at present served via New ■ Y’ork, but we are arraneing to open a direct service within n few months. When the system is complete the world voice of Great Britain will speak from Rushy not only to the Dominion, but also to all the more important countries of the earth.

•‘We hove secured for this countrv the central position in the system of lonsr-distnnee telephones services of the world, and enabled the subscriber to a British telephone to communicate hr conversation with, 90 per cent, of all the telephone subscribers anywhere on earth.”