YOUNG MARCONIS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 435, 12 September 1908, Page 3

YOUNG MARCONIS.

New Zealand’s Young Inventors. In Wireless Telegraphy. Dunedin, September 10 A notable achievement in wireless telegraphy on the part of three youths, aged respectively 16 and 17 years, has attracted some public attention. The youths, Rawson Stark, Stanton Hicks and Cyril Brandon, have for two years been experimenting, and, as a result of patient labour and many failures, they have fitted up three stations—one at Kew (Caversham), another at Anderson’s Bay, and a third at Raveusbourne.

This evening messages from the Mayor of West Harbour to the Mayor of Dunedin were sent, and were replied to between Anderson’s Bay and Raveusbourne stations; and a message was flashed across these points by the youths and then sent to the PostmasterGeneral and to Parliament.

The sending and receiving of the messages referred to were supervised by Messrs A. J. Talbot and E. Falck (of the Dunedin Telegraph Department), and both operators speak in high terms of praise of the success achieved by the lads. The rate at which the messages went was about five or six words per minute. A number of citizens connected with the Railway Department, shipping interests, and electrical engineering were present, and spoke highly of the work accomplished. Subsequently a message _ was received from the Prime Minister, conveying to the young inventors the sincere appreciation of himself and the members of Parliament for the messages.