N.Z. AND BEAM WIRELESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 13

N.Z. AND BEAM WIRELESS

STATEMENT BY MR. COATES “TOO EXPERIMENTAL YET” Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. On his first visit to 3YA, the Christchurch Station of the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand, last night the Prime Minister gave an address dealing with broadcasting, its economic position and industrial questions. He saitf that the recent tests of the new beam wireless system between Australia and Britain had been watched with great interest by the Government. It was essential that New Zealand should provide itself with the most modern and effective system of wireless communication, and at the same time, the mo 1 '! ''conomical. It was hardly reasonable to expect a country with about 1,500,000 people to expend a large sum of money on an undertaking which had, up to the present, been very largely of an experimental nature. There had been extensive improvements in recent years, and. indeed, others were pending which might make it possible for New Zealand to have a complete system of communication by wireless at a cost satisfactory to all. "No one can fail to recognise the great service that broadcasting, properly conducted, can give to the country ” said Mr Coates. “A few weeks ago I was able to arrange for reception and publication in New Zealand of daily wireless messages broadcasted by the British Foreign Office from England’s great station at Rugby, with the result that authoritative mformation is available in New Zealand simultaneously with its publication in the United Kingdom.