WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
MARCONI STATIONS PURCHASED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
Received October 1, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, October 1. Mr Sydney Buxton, PostmasterGeneral, has annuonced that the Post Office has bought the Marconi coast stations, except those at Poldhu and Chfden, whi:h are for shore-to shore communication with America, for £15,000, including the ethergraph improvements during the next fourteen years The Post Office has also purchased Lloyd's system of communication with ships. Lloyd's are entitled to information regarding tiie movements of ships. The Post Office might use any ethergraph system, and, moreover, in war time the two long distance stations are included n the arrangement.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19091002.2.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9610, 2 October 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
102WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9610, 2 October 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in