The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-27
Central and East
Maui to Receive
Improved Service
Wireless Station VIII Be In
stalled in Wailuku as Result
of Maui News Telegraph
News Service.


Central and East Maui are to have
better wireless service as the direct
result of Maui News receiving daily
telegraphic news service. A receiving
station is to be put in at the tele-
pht ne company's building in Wailullu,
thus doing away with the necessity
of telephoning radio traffic to and
from Lahaina and the resultant tolls
thereon, and reduces tolls for up-coun-
try users of the wireless telegraph,
the difference between the Wailuku
and the Lahaina toll charge. A letter
received Sunday from j. A. Balch of
the Mutual Wireless Company gives
the details. This upsets the plan of
Maui News to have its own radio news
receiving plant, but this paper is glad
to make the sacrifice of convenience
entailed, since it is for the benefit of
the community.
Cause of Change
When Maui News began receiving
Associated Press news by wireless to
Lahaina and phone from Lahaina to
its office, it became evident that ar
>rangements would have to be made to
eliminate the telephoning. The sub
ject was taken up with the Mutual
Wireless Company and arrangements
made for installing in the office OF
this paper receiving station r. i.
Cooke of the wireless company came
to Wailuku last week. installed the
plant, and while he was here wireless
news came directly into the editorial
rooms An operator was to have ar
rived from Lihue on October 3 who
would have devoted all of his time to
the business of the paper. That is
the plan that is changed through the
installation of a public receiving sta
tion in Wailuku with a land line" be-
tween Wailuku and Lahaina. Maui
News will get the benefit of the elm
ination of the use of the telephone,
with the added accuracy Of direct
transcription of messages from the
wireless and loses only the time nee
essary for the carrying of the mes
sages from the telephone building to
it's office. The public gets the benefit
of a station in Wailuku.
company's Letter
The letter of Mr.. Balch follows:
Honolulu. Il. H., Sept. %, 1921.
Gentlemen: In an effort to still fur
ther improve our inter-island wireless
system it has been decided by this
company to develop on the Island of
Maui the "remote-controF system of
radio communication which has
proven eminently satisfactory on
Oahu and Hawaii, the principal ad
vantage therein being that the receiv
ing station and the operator are cen
trally located at the point of heaviest |
traffic origin, and the transmitting
station, regardless of its location is |
controlled by means of land-line and |
suitable relay by the centrally located |
operator.
"Thus messages designated for Hilo |
originating in Honolulu are transmit |
ted direct to the Hilo office from the |
Honolulu desk and vice-versa through |
the medium of the remote-controlled |
stations at Wahiawa, Oahu and Ka- |
waihae, Hawaii. Messages so routed !
are handled by only two men, the Ho |
nolulu and Hilo operators, as against |
the old system of four operators when |
messages are copied from a land line |
and resent from the transmitting sta
tion.
"Thsi obviously tends to not only |
speed up the circuit, but materially |
lessons the chances of errors occur
ring in transmission.
"The receiving station on Maui will |
be located in the telephone building
in Wailuku, thereby eliminating the
necessity of telephoning radio traffic
to and from the Lahaina station and
the resultant tolls thereon, also al
lowing the residents of East Maui and
points adjacent 10 Wailuku a much
shorter telephone connection to the
control point.
Residents of the Lahaina district
will continue, if they so desire, to file
their traffic with the Lahaina station,
as no change in the personnel of that
station will be made, and messages to
and from the Lahaina vicinity will be
handled as usual.
"R. l.. Cooke, superintendent of the
Mutual Telephone Company's wireless
department, will leave for Maui on or
about the first of October with the
necessary apparatus and material foi
the installation of the Wailuku sta
ton, and it is hoped that the above
outlined program will be in operating
effect before the 18th OF the month.
Very sincerely yours,
MUTUAL TELEPHONE CO.,
-. A. Balch Treasurer"