Teleradio Saves Time In
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New Guinea
MR. W. M. MIDDLETON, who has a plantation on an island 45 miles from Madang, New Guinea, and is now on a visit to Sydney, says that the intro duction of the teleradio into the Man dated Territory has proved a great boon to planters, especially in time saving.
“Formerly we did not know just when a steamer from Australia would arrive.
We would travel 45 miles in a launch to meet her—occupying eight hours —and perhaps wait for a day or two. Now we
never leave home until, by means of our teleradio sets, we have learned the ex act time the ship is due”.
Mr. Middleton said that, with the teleradio, he could ring up Madang and send a wireless telegram to a business house in Sydney. A few hours later, the reply could reach him. The teleradio had proved invaluable in sickness. More than once he had spoken by teleradio with a doctor in Madang, who had told him how to treat a patient.
The introduction of teleradio into the Mandated Territory by Amalgamated Wireless had been an inestimable boon.