TIMELY INAUGURATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 7

TIMELY INAUGURATION

OVERSEAS RADIO-PHOTO SERVICE DAY OF ROYAL WEDDING P.A. WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. An overseas radio-photo service will be opened/ for commercial business to-morrow, announced the PostmasterGeneral, Mr Hackett to-night. Preliminary tests of the equipment and 1 circuits had proved successful, and - negotiations regarding rates and schedules with 'the British and Australian authorities had been completed. The service will now. .function as a normal Post with Australia and London/ "V “It is appropriate,” said Mr'Hackett, “that this new'service will be opened in time to carry,. provided radio conditions any' sufficiently. good, inward photographs of the royal wedding. Officers o' fthe post office have worked hard to/ have the service operating for the /occasion,, and I- pay a tribute to their] efficiency, and zea i- The inception f pf this service forges a further link in 'our overseas communications and brinlgs New Zealand within a few hours by picture of Australia and the United Kingdom. “ The royal wedding affords an •historic occasion for the opening of the service,” Mr Hackett added, . “and we can only hope that radio conditions, which are sometimes fickle over long distances, will he sufficiently good to enable the public of New Zealand to see good radio pictures of the wedding only a few hours after the event.” The rates, which vary according to size, are: To Australia £3 6s 8d for small-sized pictures and £6 5s 9d for the larger size; to the United Kingdom, £6 5s for the smaller sizes and up to £l3 15s for the larger sizes.