Wireless for Torres Straits.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., Feb. 29.
SOME months ago, a contributor to this paper mooted the idea of link ing up the various Islands centres in Torres Straits by wireless telephone, and the subject was discussed with the Chief Protector of Aboriginals on a re cent visit here.
Such a scheme would facilitate the administrative work of the Aboriginal Department and the mission stations, but it is in cases of urgent illness that the service would be of greatest benefit.
Economy, however, is the order of the day here, as elsewhere, and the plan cannot be put in execution yet, though it has not been lost sight of.
No doubt the future development of Torres Straits will proceed on more modern lines than in the past, and it is not impossible to imagine the day when small seaplanes will be in constant use by officials and business people.