Way For Wireless!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 37, 3 July 1914, Page 5

Way For Wireless!

I WIRELESS BECOMES CHEAPER AS]? ! BETTER. " ■ ■ ■ 1 A NEW EPOCH. BENEFIT TO THE PACIFIC CABLE SERVICE.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright ! London, July 1. living evidence before the Dominion! Commission, Air. Godfrey Isaacs said h® would shortly open new wireless stations at Carnarvon and Belnar, near New York, enabling the transmission or receipt of a hundred words a minute for the greater part of the twenty-four hours, lie hoped soon to establish land wireless between Glace Bay and Vancouver, linking up with the Pacific cable. Tli ere was no reason why Sir T. Henniker Heaton's penny-a-word messajfei should not ultimately be realised. Received 2, 9.55 p.m.

London, July 2,

Mr. Godfrey Isaacs said it was quite possible for the Marconi Company to transmit across the Atlantic twenty-flva million words annually. Rates were already 30 per cent, cheaper than the cables wherever they were in competition. Wireless cost so little to establish that it would become cheaper and cheaper with every improvement which enabled them "to increase the load. The Carnarvon and Belmar Stations marked a new epoch in wireless. They would be able to despatch and receive with as much certainty and secrecy as the submarine cable at a third less cost, and still have a large profit. Marconi bad assured him that when the mechanical apparatus was complete for automatic wireless telegraphy, there was no reason why it should not send and receive three hundred words a minute.

The -Marconi Company had already wirelessly telephoned six hundred miks, and contemplated telephoning from Carnarvon to New York. The connecting" of Glace Bay with Montreal would, enable the Marconi Company to cater effectively' for Australian requirements and free the Pacific cable from the impost enacted by the Atlantic cable .tor the time and date of filing messages, and for delivery of duplicate a>:d triplicate copies to customers, and also enable the Pacitic Cable Company to arrange for a suitable week-end .letter service. Moreover, the twopence aword paid to the Atlantic,, companies for transmitting from Montreal to tie cable landings would accrue to the Pacific cable, while, the Marconi Company was in a position to quote the Pacific cable Atlantic rate of sixpence a word for ordinary messages.

SUPERSEDING OCEAN CABLE ' SYSTEM. Sydney, July 2. , Mr. Wynne, Postmaster-General, referring to" the AU-lled cable route, said his opinion was that wireless was going to supersede the cable system. Very phortly messages would be transmitted from England to Australia, by this means. At present Australia waj : erecting*# powerful station at win, enabling direct messages to be sent to. Singapore and continuing by the All-Red wireless system. It was much, cheaper to erect and equip wireless stations than to lay a cable across the At- -.n lantic.