RADIO AND COMMERCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 9

RADIO AND COMMERCE

MOVE FOR AUSTRALIA AND N.Z. STATION TO UNDERCUT BEAM by Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. THE President of the Association for Developing Wireless in Australia and New Zealand, announced that he has lodged an application with Mr. Stanley Bruce, Commonwealth Prime Minister, asking permission to establish in Australia a new wireless station for commercial traffic with Britain and other parts of the world.

He states that estimates have been prepared showing that it would be ■ commercially possible to reduce the : rates of the beam by 50 per cent. | below the present charges, and yet ! run the wireless station at a hand- 1 some annual profit. There was sufficient capital behind j the new proposal to ensure a firstclass radio station being established in Australia for world communication. Arrangements are being advanced, but nothing can be done until the Federal ; Government has given permission for j the erection of a station. One of the . guarantees to be given to the Govern-! ment will be that the station be so |

operated that it will give continuous j reliable service, and not interfere with ; any other radio station. The object of the promoters is to prevent any combination being 1 made with the controllers of the i beam wireless and the cable com- j | panies, to maintain high rates for intra-Empire and international communication. The Government will be given a guarantee that all traffic will i be handled on a basis which will pro- ( ; duce S per cent, on the cost of erect- , j ing and maintaining the station, and I this will ensure a reduction of more j j than 50 per cent, on the present I I charges.—A. and N.Z.