Talk with London

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 November 1930, Page 4

Talk with London

Wireless Telephone F tests upon the Tasman radio telephone prove satisfactory within the next few days it is anticipated that a unique conver~ation will take ° place early this week, when the Acting-Prime Minister, Hon. BE. A... Ranso1_ will speak from Wellingtg to the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G7 V. Forbes, in London. This will be the first official conversation between Bngland and New Zealand, and it will mark an important step in the advance of inter-Imperial communication. The radio telephone service between London and Sydney has been in operation for some time, and experiments upon the service between Weilington and Sydney have been in progress for several weeks. This section is the one causing the difficulty, Lut it is anticipated that the service will be ready for commercial operation in the near future. The Director of the Commonwealth Postal Department, Mr. H. P. Brown, recently had several successful experimental talks with Mr. G. McNamara, Secretary of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department. It was hoped that the service would have been opered by now, but the tests have bee prolonged in view of various diffictities that have been encountered. There was a proposal that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon, P. A. de la Perrelle, should speak to the Lord Mayor of Sydney when the New Zealand offices ‘were opened there last Monday, but this proved impossible, so that the conversation between Mr. Ransom and Mr. Forbes will be the first to take place, apart from those conducted by the Commonwealth and Dominion departments, Numerous complications have to be overcome by the Post and Telegraph Department in conducting a successful service between London and New Zealand. The service between Sydney and London is only working four hours a day,-: owing to fading trouble. Once the te#ts have been completed it is not expected there will be much difficulty in maintaining a service between Sydney and Wellington, It is possible there will be a little trouble for a start between Wellington and London, as in_the first instance there is a yariation in time of 12 Urs.