All Nations Sign

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 9

All Nations Sign

WORLD RADIO CONVENTION Technical Problem Solved By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11.18 a.m. WASHINGTON, Friday. “’I’lIlS is not only proof of the progressive capacity of the 1 world to solve its international problems, hut it is also a tribute to the character and spirit of all the nations,” said Mr. H. C. Hoover, American Secretary of Commerce, and chairman of the International Radio Conference, when representatives of the nations appended their signatures to the Convention that had been drawn up—the most comprehensive communications instrument ever adopted.

rjPHE Convention is now signed Delegates, who have been in ses sion tor nearly eight weeks, inform ally attached their signatures to docu raents totalling 26,000 words.

The final edit of the Convention and the accompanying alterations will be left to the International Telegraph Bureau at Berne. The conference rejected proposals for the combination of the International Telegraph and International Radio Conventions into single documents, but expressed a general hope that this may be accomplished in the future.

Mr. Hoover stated that there had not been a single Important difference of opinion among the

conferees, and that they had arrived unanimously at the solution of a problem of high technical difficulty.

The Convention is the most comprehensive communications instrument ever adopted. It is accompanied by regulations governing the technical handling of radio practice. The regulations were divided into two parts', one of which was nonobligatory on the United States because its radio communications are handled by private companies.

Count Hamilton, of Sweden, dean of the Convention, replied on behalf of the conference to Mr. Hoover’s felicitations.—A. and N.Z.

IMPORTANT STEP SEVENTY-SIX COUNTRIES FINAL READINGS The signing of the International Radio Convention and its supplementary regulations was commenced after more than three hours had been spent by the Plenary Commission of the conference in final readings and minor modifications. Important provisions of the new Convention are compulsory arbitration in radio disputes, and the creation of an international technical advisory committee. The convention will be subject to revision at Madrid in 1932. Meanwhile, the International Bureau at Berne will be the general international agency for radio information. The question of plural voting in radio matters was not settled at the present conference, and is not mentioned In the Convention, which also avoided mention of the Cortina report, which will be left to the Madrid congress. Seventy-six countries, including colonies and mandatories, are entering into the Convention, which is designed to eliminate international interference in radio communications through an agreed allocation of wave-lengths between fixed stations, mobile services, broadcasters, amateurs and other types of service. The Convention will take effect from January, 1929.—A. and N.Z.