RADIO SERVICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 7

RADIO SERVICES

NOTEWORTHY PROGRESS IN BRITAIN DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD COMMUNICATIONS. ASSISTANT-MINISTER'S SURVEY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. RUGBY, April 25. Speaking at a banquet of the National Chamber of Trade at Brighton, the Assistant Postmaster-General, Sir Walter Womersley, revealed important post office plans for the improvement of communication services, including the erection of a large new receiving station in Kent with an aerial two miles long connected to the receiving station by sixteen miles of special cable for the trans-Atlantic telephone, system.

Arrangements have also been made for the provision of ultra shortwave radio telephone channels between England and France and between the mainland and the Shetland Islands. Sir Walter Womersley said that during the past year great progress had been 'made in the development of world communications, especially as they affected the Empire.

To provide for the growth of traffic to Holland and the Scandinavian countries, a new type of cable was laid between England and Holland. The total number of telephone circuits between England and the Continent was now more than 170. Ultra shortwave radio telephone circuits would also be utilised for connecting the Hebrides and other islands. In the United Kingdom itself, where progress was also evident, during the last year 6200 new circuits had been added to the trunk system.