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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 573, 4 June 1913, Page 3

Surprising results are being obtained by means of the new invention of an Italian youth. Francesco di Bernocchi, called the wireless iconograph, which has recently been tested between Milan and Turin. His apparatus is far in advance of anything of the kind yel recorded. Besides ordinary messages, it also transmits autographs, shorthand characters, and all sorts of designs. So simple is the arrangemet that the transmitter and the receiver of this instrument may be applied with ease to any ordinary wireless telegraph plant. General Spingardi, the Italian Minister of War, is so impressed by the enormous advantages of the wireless iconograph for transmitting orders and conveying sketches in time of war with the utmost secrecy, that steps were immediately taken to secure for the Italian Government's exclusive possession. Australasian reciprocity in the payment of old age pensions has been agreed on in principle between' 'the two Fishers," but the details are not easy to settle. An Australian paper offers the following alternative :—"lt has been proposed that in a case, for example, where a person has lived 15 years in New Zealand and five years in Australia, New Zealand should pay three-quarters of his pension, and Australia one-quarter. This, however, would result in a complicated systeml of book-keeping having to be maintained, and might end in serious annual Joutlay. Another proposal is that each Government should agree to pay the pension to citizens who have qualified by residence for the required number of years in the two countries. Australia would pay in that case the pensions of Australians living in New Zealand. An important part of this plan, however, would be to ensure first that there was no great disproportion between the •population of one country settling in the other so that neither New Zealand nor Australia should have to pay what would practically be the pensions of the other country. Starting from July of this year, com missions in the New Zealand Defence Forces will go by competitive examinations. All non-commissioned officers, of the rank of corporal or higher, of the Territorial Forces, and sergeants of the Senior Cadets> will be eligible to compete, provided they are between the ages of 18 and 25 years. Positions as they fall vacant will be filled in order of merit in the event of a successful candidate not finding a place, he will be required to sit again at the examination in the following year, as the examinations are to hold for one year only. The first examination will be held on July Ist next and the three following days.