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SIAMESE PRINCE'S MISSION.

An invitation was extended to the visitors to stay with the Governor's Deputy, but as they would be here for two nights only. Prince Purachatra preferred to go to the Europe Hotel, where they later in the day had a visit from the Governor's Deputy.

WEATHER CHARTS BY WIRELESS.

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Singapore, June 26. Towards the end of the world Not having extensive Anancial His Royal Highness

Professional Prince war,

Max Dieck-resources for elaborate and costly Purachatra, who with Princesa munn, the director of the radio ex- experiments, New Zealand has Purachatra and their daughter,perimental station at Grafelfing-by-maintained a waiting attitude in Princess Mayurachatr, are paying Munich, male experiments in trans- regard to wireless, though the a visit to Australia, arrived in Sin-mitting messages from aeroplanes technical experts of the Post and to radio stationa. On the basis of Telegraph Department are well in gapore yesterday by the Kistna.

The party was met on board by the experience thus obtained, he touch with what is going forward. the Governor's Deputy (the Hon.] worked out a method by which, ex- The latest developments in beam Mr. E. C. H. Wolff's), Private perimentally, portions of the wea wireless offer a fascinating pros- Secretary (Mr. H. J. Eley), the Con- ther chart have. For some time,pect for the future, and it is the well-informed au- sal-General for Siam (Hie Excel been transmitted by the Munich opinion of a

thority connected with the Tostal lency Phya Pradibaddha Bhubal) sender. and vice-Consul (Phra Sri Sayam

Department that wireless brond- Kitch) and disembarked on board

casting may improve so rapidly the Kittiwake, H.E. the Governor's

that relaying of English pro-

Jaunch,

grammes may acon become a real factor. Then the average man who so far has not troubled to The process of transmission in "listen in" to local programmea At the wire will install a wireless receiving set briefly as follows: less station, the outline drawings to participate in the broadcasting of the chart to be transmitted are services of international import- sketched upon warmed metallic follance available.

crayon. These

1,000 Words of News. drawings thus constitute electri New Zealand is pronting daily cally insulated lines. The metallic from the broadcasting programme foll is next attached around a re of the British official station at volving cylinder. A metal point is Rugby. so adjusted as fo puce, as it Wireless Possibilities.

were, a closely arranged curve His Royal Highness' had a mis- from end to end of the cylinder. sion to fulfil in his stop at Singa- Wherever this metallis point meets Prince Purachatra, who is one of the insulated grease lines the head of the Slamese State the electric current is interrupted. Railways and the Minister of Com- the interruptions naturally corres

nending to the outline drawine at merce and Communications, is a wireless enthusiast. The wireless the weather chart. Both the inter- station at Bangkok is claimed to be ruptions and the closures of the the most powerful east of Suez (in-current are sent to the wireless cluding the Dutch Indies station transmitter in such a way that the

effective. nositi and the station at Tokyo) and dur latter emits ing the stop at Singapore HIA Royal Highness had hoped to con sult the Government with a view to linking up the Malayan and Simffected. esa wireless system, for commercial purposes, for use. among other things, when the land line is out of

Last night the party were the guests of His Excellency the Con- sul-General for Siam and this even ing they will be the guests of the Governor's Deputy.

pore.

order.

One of His Royal Highness's plans is said to be to connect with Australia, via Singapore, for the

reenint of European news.

Owing to the absence of 11.E. the Governor, it would manifestly not have been possible for any satis- factory stage to be reached in the proposal, and it is stated that Prince Purachatra will resume the conversation .during his stop at Singapore on

from Australia.

here.

his

return

Visit to Wireless. His Royal Highness's programme in Singapore included a visit this morning to the wireless station

Purachatra and Buite Prince leave for Australia to-morrow His morning by the "Marella." Royal Highness, is an old acquain- tance of the present Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, and will be his guest during the vessel's stop at Batavia.

From Batavia Prince Purachatre proceeds to Bandoeng with a view to conferring with the head of the Java railway service. From Bandoeng His Royal Highness will motor to Sperabaya, where he will catch the "Marella."

The tour of Australasin which is more or less a health trip, will in clude New Zealand, where His Royal Highness will be the guest of the Governor-General.

STATIONS FOR PORTUGAL..

waves whenever the metal nent reaches an insulated spot on the foil. That is to say. inversion is

Around this

Three times a day this station sends out a news bulletin which la picked up efficiently by the Awarua station near Invercar- gill.

These messages sometimes run to a thousand words, and what is of New Zealand interest is die- tributed to the Dominion Press. The difficulties experienced hy Awarua in picking up this daily bulletin have been comparatively slight

WEF beam wireless prove a com- petitor to the cable service? There is no complaint of slowness of communication with Britain, the present volume of messages bring far from equal to the capa- rity of the enbles; but where wire- less may make an inroad is in heap working and consequent re- duetion of rates.

A Simple Process. The photographic receiver also consists of a cylinder, which must revolve synchronously with that of

New Zealand representatives on the sender-a matter which can he

the standing committee on Imperial easily arranged. cylinder are placed a layer of draw-wireless services-appointed to ad Ing-paper and a layer of carbon vise on matters arising out of the An electric-magnetienlly conduct of the Imperial wireless paper. hested needle presses upon the service between Great Britain and carbon paper whenever an electric Canada. Australia and South Africa wave arrives, and thus reproduces-nre Sir James Parr, (High Com- missioner) and Mr. John Milward, the chart upon the drawing-paper,

The procese is obviously alate manager in the Pacific for the simple one. Nevertheless, it is of Pacific Cable Board. arent significance inasmuch as it constitutes the absolutely first Case of pictorial transmission effected by wireless. But more It has been estimated that the than this: it means also a consider- total energy collected by the aver- able increase in the security of age wireless aerial over a period necan navigation, in whose "vice of 40 years is only just sufficient it has quite recently been used with | to lift a fly one inch. great success, The tests were This amazing fact brings home made between the Norddeich Wire- the wonder of wireless reception Icas Station on the North Sea ecast when consideration is given to the and the steamship Westphalia of volume of music that can be re- the Hamburg-American Line on the ceived from the negligible energy necasion of its voyage from Ham- In an aerial. burg to New York at the end of last April.

LIFTING A FLY.

Another instance of the tremen- dous economy of energy that is a Over 2,000 Miles.

feature of wireless has been sup- Weather charts of the Hamburg | plied to us by a wireless experimen- Meteorological Station were radioed ter using Mullard P.M. Valves who to the steamer daily by means of with only the equivalent energy of Professor Dieckmann's method: an ordinary flash lamp battery es- these were received with excellent tablished two-way communication results up to a distance of 4,000 with a fellow experimenter. kilometres: which is all the more

The actual energy consumed remarkable since the sender used amounted to less than one-thou- had power of only 5 kilowatts sandth of a watt per mile. and, ultimately, the hours at dis- posal were the most unsuitable for broadcasting.

are very

ESPERANTO ON WIRELESS.

Vienna. June 1. On June & the Seventh Austrian Esperanto Conference will be held here.

The Education Ministry has opened a number of Esperanto courses free of charge at the elementary schools, lyceums, and commercial academies.

The facilities and the security afforded to navigation. Profes A further extension of wireless nor. Dieckmann's invention

opened quite obvious; for it is a telegraph facilities was with the inauguration of services different matter whether meteoro- between Lisbon and the Portuguese logical news is received verbally or Colonies of Cape Verde, Angola, graphically; the latter gives a clear and Mozambique. The opening of ocular view of the general state of these services completes the net- the weather; and it is for this ren-

An exhibition has been opened work of wireless communication son that the shipping world, the showing the progress of Esperanto, which Marconi's Wireless Tele-overseas voyager and the general by broadcasting, and other means. graph Company Ltd. undertook to public will undoubtedly welcome While in 1922 it was sent out only construct for the Portuguese Mar with enthusiasm the possibilities by two Radio stations, in 1924 cont Company in accordance with opened up by this new broadcasting soventeen countries did so, and

the process. the concession obtained from

this year thirty-one have used it. Portuguese Government in Novem-

The Australian Broadcasting Com- Direct wireless com- ber, 1922.

pany intends to open a new Es- munication is now established be-

peranto course for beginners, and tween Lisboa and all the principal In announcing at the annual to send the most interesting news Portuguese colonies, and by means meeting, in Manchester, of the abroad in Esperanto once a week. of the services now established Halle Concerts Society that a nom- Portugal is able to communicate by ber of concerts next season would wireless with practically every be broadcast, Sir Hamilton Harty, part of, the world. The English the conductor, said that, while it merely from listening-in would group of wireless stations with would be foolish to underrate the make a very foolish mistake.

"They never hear music as it which the Fortuguese stations at value of wireless, anyone who was Lisbon communicate are the Mar- able to bear music performed in really sounds," he continued, "and conf stations at Ongar and Brent-the usual way and was neverthe- their musical taste and judgment wood, in Essex.

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