Pacific Radiophones
p. 52 · Read in the full issue
ALTHOUGH the radiophone between Australia and New Zealand and Australia and Britain has been more or less suspended since the out break of war, the radiophone between Australia and New Guinea is still in operation.
When war broke out Australia was making preparations to establish a radiophone service between Australia and Fiji, and Australia and Malaya, but these two projects are now held up.
The Australian Post Office announced the other day that a plan to establish a radiophone service between Australia and Nauru has been deferred, owing to the war.
Mr. R. A. Colyer, one of the principals of the Colyer, Watson firm, has been visiting Rabaul, New Guinea, where his firm has substantial interests.
Master Stanley Ward-Walker, son of Mr Tom Walker, of Rabaul, and 13 years of age, has successfully passed a Mel bourne examination which admits him to the Flinders Naval Base College.