'Phone to New Zealand

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 46, 30 May 1930, Page 7

'Phone to New Zealand

A Link To England 7NHE unqualified success of the wireless telephone service between Australia and Great Britain has undoubtedly shown New Zealand the need for a telephone service between that country and Australia. Mr. EB. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless, recently received official confirmation from New Zealand that the Dominion Government was taking active measures to inaugurate a service between the two countries, Amalgamated Wireless has recently supplied the New Zealand Government with a 5-kilowatt transmitter for radio telegraphy, and the Government has lately ordered the balance of the modulating equipment necessary to enable the transmitter to be also used for telephony. rhe apparatus already supplied to the New Zealand Government, as well as the transmitting and receiving equipment used in connection with the Australian-Great Britain Radiophone Service, was entirely designed and manufactured in Australia. Similarly the modulating equipment now ordered by the Dominion Government will also be manufactured in that country. Mr. Fisk could not vouch any information as to whether the New Zealand Government intended to install a direct Wireless telephone service between the Dominion and Great Britain, but stated that the apparatus now ordered by the Dominion could be used in conjunction with the Sydney equipment to communicate by telephone to London. He was of the opinion, however, that a direct service would be preferable when _Wireless telephone service between the enlarge the scope of the service,