WIRELESS PICTURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 241, 10 September 1929, Page 7

WIRELESS PICTURES.

FIRST AUSTRALIAN ■' SERVICE “VERY FAIrTpRODUCTION.”

SYDNEY, Sept. 9. The first picturegrams transmitted in Australia were exchanged between Sydney and Melbourne to-day.

The evening papers in Sydney published illustrations received through the medium of special apparatus installed by the Postal Department. One halfpage picture was that of a crowd of people, en route to business, outside the Flinders Street railway station, Melbourne. This was developed and lodged at the Post Office, and half an hour later it was completed in Sydney ready for the newspaper process blockmaker. While the detail necessarily is somewhat blurred, the picture gives a very fair reproduction of the original. Tho picturegrams 1 , or photograms, as they aro variously called, included not only newspaper illustrations but also advertisements, fingerprints and documents. It is expected that the system will lie particularly valuable to the poiice in tracing criminals. The system will operate only between Sydney and Melbourne for the present. A reproduction of the leading article in this morning’s Melbourne Argue is published in this afternoon’s editions of tho Sydney Sun. Every word is readable, and the article makes threequarters of a column. Picturegrams of Sydney’s crowds going to work have been sent to Melbourne by the same process.