NEW WONDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 13

NEW WONDERS

TELEVISION AND PHOTOTELEGRAPHY AUSTRALIAN’S EXPERIENCES To speak to an official in distant Buenos Ayres from a broadcasting station in Berlin, to talk with a man in a quiet country village in Essex from a bedroom of an hotel in busy New York, and to hear the voices of his daughters in Melbourne from a wireless station in London have been some of the unusual experiences of Mr. H. P. Brown (Director of Posts and Telegraphs in Australia), who has returned from a tour of America and Europe. He saw all the latest developments in wireless telephony and postal services in America, England and portions of the Continent.

Telephonically or telegraphically, Mr. Brown said, Australia was not behind other parts of the world he had visited. He had seen various new forms of public service, including a rural automatic telephone system, which had commended itself to him. Television and phototelegraphy he said had reached a remarkable stage of perfection, and he thought that what he had seen of television showed that the system was 100 per cent, perfect. He had ordered two British automaic rural extehanges, and they would soon be in Australia. ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA

The Imperial Cable Wireless Conference had exploited every possible avenue in an attempt to solve the problem of Empire communication, said Mr. Brown, and when the cablewireless merger plan had been carried to fruition it would be recognised as one of the most important things ever done for the Empire. He was anxious to prepare for the introduction of regular wireless telephony between England and Australia. Business men were reaching out for the new facility, but the early difficulty would be a synchronisation to times, as there were only two or three hours out of the 24 during which the business hours in the two countries coincided. He did not, however, think that any of the difficulties would be insuperable, and stated that all the new developments in wireless telephony and television would he mtioduced into Australia within a reasonable time.