EMPIRE WIRELESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1921, Page 5

EMPIRE WIRELESS.

A LACK OF VISION. NO DEFINITE ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. Received August 8, 5.5 p.m. London, August 8. /The Daily Telegraph, in a leader on wireless communications, wonders why the Imperial Conference accepted a discredited scheme, which was eo inadequate that Mr. W. M. Hughes reserved for Australia complete freedom of action. The scheme looks very like a project of little minds groping in the dark, whereas we need a bold scheme, evolved by men of express knowledge and wide vision. So far as Imperial communications are concerned the conference failed, especially in giving consent to the Post Office remaining in charge of wireless developments. The result will probably be further delay, and in the meantime our kith and kin overseas have to obtain what advantages or disadvantages they may from the service being inaugurated in other countries. That is not the way to consolidate the Commonwealth. which represents a distinctive phase of civilisation. There would have been some hope if an Imperial Board had been formed with power to mobilise the beat scientific mind? and business heads in order to speedily produce a swiftly working and cheap system of wireless throughout the Empire. We are convinced that only in the free atmosphere of science, in alliance with commerce, will the Empire obtain adequate. swift and cheap wireless communication. —Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.