CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 291

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Best Africa and Great Britain about 750,000

words a year.

Test Africa and India

East Africa and youth Africa

About 250,000 vords on ecoh line.

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fest Africa and Great Britain omewhat more than hotween West Africa and

Great Britain,

India and Ceylon with Straits Settlements,

About 2,000,000 words a year,

Straits Settlements with China including

Hong Kong, Congwhat core then

2,000,000 words a year,

10.

As regards (b).

Apparatus to transmit continuous

waves is rapidly being fitted in tho important liners.

It presents two advantages, viz., greater range from a

given serial, and less congestion of traffic.

There is a great opportunity here for develo ment,

since there are very few stations open for C,,traffic,

While there are hundreds working on the commercial spark

wave.

The Haval station Rock (Gibraltar) is already

handling a rapidly increasing traffic on 0.Wt.

Opportunities present themselves at

Jamaica

Bermuda

peculiarly favourable in view of the

Canal trade route.

..den

Matera

Seletar

Stonecutters.

11.

As regards (c).

The statious mentioned shove

mi_ht also be utilised to handle commercial traffic on

the commercial serk wave, closing the existing low power

stations as necessary.

power

Any odium/station may handle commercial ship

traffic on the spark and continuous waves, together with

commercial point to point traffic and non-paying Service

traffic, in one of two ways:-

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