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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 4

Time Marchese Marconi, speaking at j a 'luncheon given in his honour by the I 'Royal Empire Society, referred to de-: velopmer.ts in wireless telegraphy and ' telephony. He paid .a tribute to the Bluish Rost Office and its chief officials for all that they had done in helping to make radio an efficient medium of universal communication. Through j their belief in the commercial use- of , Uhoiit waves, which he proposed in { 1924, England had been the first conn- j try to construct short-wave beam sta-1 tions for wireless telegraphic communication throughout the Empire. The British Dominions had been subsequently . linked together with'the wireless jteß'phbne, thus making London the greatest wireless telephone exchange in the world. It was safe to say that the potentialities of radio wer© Hot yet exhausted, Difficulties such as atmospheric interference arid fading were becoming better understood and would probably eventually be Overqome. He had been for some time engaged chiefly in the study of the socalled “micro-waves’’—those of under one metre. They had move than justified the tim© spent in investigation, end appeared to be of unexpected importance. He thought that great developments might be looked for later on in the realm of television, in regard to which the ultra-short• waves might be expected to play a considerable part.