The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1913. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1913. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

The girdling of the earth with wireless telegraphy proceeds apace and another link in the well-arranged chain of stations which is gradually being placed along the coast of Australia was completed a few days ago, when the station at Esperance, Western Australia, was opened for the transaction ol business. It is anticipated that within the next few weeks stations will also bo in working order at Broomo (Western Australia), Townsville (Queensland), Flinders Island (Bass Straits), and Wyndham (Western Australia). Similar installations are already in operation at Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Rockampton, Cooktown, Thursday Island, Port Moresby, Roeburne, Geraldton, and Mount Gambier. These are all low-power stations. So far I the only places at which high-power j stations have been erected are Pen-j nant Hills and Fremantle, but one is | now being built at Darwin, and it j will probably be opened for business!

within a few weeks. The average cost of the lower power station, it is stated, lias been £4OOO each, and of the jhigh power stations about £15,000 icach, so that the stations already built and building have involved an expenditure of £109,000. It is also proposed to instal wireless at Woodlark Island, and Sama'rai (Papua) .Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and Albany and Carnarvon, in 'Western Australia. A few miles outside Apia the German Government is ■erecting a high-power wireless station, which will have a range of two thousand miles. It is one of the three stations which the German Government is

erecting to connect up its possessions in the Pacific, the others being at jGerman New Guinea and the Marshall | lslands. Wireless telegraphy is cornjing so much into real practical use Itliat it has almost ceased to be wonjderful.