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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7960, 25 October 1905, Page 4

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'ONM-XTIM! AfSTUAj.IA AND M-:\V ZKAI.ANI) So'.ie iiartieulars oi ~ scheme lor ■Miitctiii- New 7 alatiil with Ai;sI ilia by means ~i wireless teleu,ra!by were supplied to a Post r.-pre-s.M.UiVe in the coiitse of an intcri -..- In- Mr .1 \\ liaiuilion. r.'i.ivt.til.niif oi lbe InUTn.iiiou.l Tele--r.i[ li (.'nii-triiction (.'oiupati; . who i.-, .1 on a \isil to New V.v.i- ,. ..:. This eeiiipany works the Sit 11 -'wniless" pal, nl- i-onnictiil with !„■ .' b:„ th.ikir system. .Mr lianiil- •■ i: s;,itis il-.at tlie cunpanv pro- ■ se, to coi.iuci New Zealand with ■.••:■ I i!:a ■.;•. two ways. Cn.. is iiy a t.it ion at. Ilr south ill I of 'li;-South :l.i!il, and aiiolb-r at Tasmania. ,t h atio'liei at Victoria. The eom:.ii,-. is x'.iNn pn|>,ivil to eoniKcl -•i.iney wttit a northern station in ■':•- Nirtii Island, cither ihr.cl or II I.u-1 Howe Islaral. or Norfolk slainl. l-.'ach of these two routes .o.1:1 ('est ai.oiit ih - same ior lhc islallal'ioii. The I'ostmastei-fiener-i! I Sir .Joseph Waid) has b.eti re-i.ii.-il as puttini; the ci si at about

:u,i:fHi. Mi liaiiiiUiui would, mil comun; loins.dl", bin said the cost •c 1 cither fiiiiU' Would >'),• almul Hie mine slated. "Jl is," he said, 'sonic tiii.tum apiiiist t2"i»,i«iii, for 11i.it is tin' cost (if I'ciiiiiiclinji; New /riiljinl Willi Australia l>y cilde.'' l-'rnm Ihe in l( ranees (it Aiislnilian Ministers i; won!;! seem that the International Telegraph Company is the "fly <»»• »i several companies that made a clelinite olTcr. Till' induccI'.H'lit lll'lll out ii I'lllltll'l'tiiin Willi tln-) ' iii 1115; nf X'ew Zi'alanil and Australia is a n duct ion in tlie rale, of "iis,i;i'i (mm Ud tn id per wind, mil a minimum continuous iiansmiss'l'ii nf J."i words a niiiiiite where ;>i;Vs m eleVali'l Kiuund In a height "I 2iMl!l are obtainable, and a miniiiiuiii of HI Wolds a minute, in coiu-|un--«iii Willi Hie present ca.,l- rates "f transmission of soiiietliini; like 15 In 2(1 words a minute. This reads well, and Mr Ilamilion savs his company j s prepared to malic'it an .iclual fact before asking for a pennv in payment. Onee the ( „lo„v hail I;"" stations it w,,uld, Mr Hamilton '"His. pay :!„. Union Company to "»1> tlieir slnjis with apparatus and so .in addilional safenuaid would \v seciiidl against tin. p,.|i| s „,■ ~;,. sea. 'I In- Australasian s,pi, ( dioi, "■'":' )S ■ lln- -i ,| y f""iii ruuippnl Willi wiienss liislriimenls. would also Insays. Ik- aide i„ communicate' wish llie land slitions.