TALKING TO LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1037, 30 July 1930, Page 1

TALKING TO LONDON

RADIO SERVICE NEXT MONTH WELLINGTON-SYDNEY LINK Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. People in New Zealand will be able to converse with people in London by telephone in about three weeks’ time as a result of the inauguration of the radio telephone service between Sydney and Wellington. Some months ago the New Zealand Government placed an order with Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Limited, for a 5 kw. short-wave transmitter, which it was then intended should be used in the service between Wellington and the radio stations in tho Pacific Islands. This apparatus is now being: erected in the station on the Tinakori Hills and when the work is completed it will bo possible for telephonic communications to be established between Australia and New Zealand during the greater part of each day. Tho new service betwen Sydney and Wellington will enable all parts of the Dominion to link up with the telephone system of the Commonwealth and with the telephone systems of Britain and the leading countries of Europe. Experiments carried out in Sydney and New York recently demonstrated the feasibility of a direct radio telephone service between those two cities, and, through them, between telephone subscribers in Australia, the United States and Canada.