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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 6

An Aucklander who has a correspondent in Alberta, Canada, received a letter from him by yesterday's mail, in the course of which he speaks of the rapid growth of the wireless phone in his | district. 'Wireless phones," writes the correspondent, "are all the go here now. Timber companies make a speciality of supplying 38-foot masts for installations, and newspapers send out wireless concerts every day and night. Aery many people who do not think of owning a Ford, have a wireless mast m their yard. The radio supply is getting to be a huge business," etc. He then goes on to urge his friend to get into the business, as he says "there is lots of money in it." In the interview with Mr. A. S. Trowers on forfeited holdings, which appeared in last night's issue, one point ] was omitted, namely, the proposal to j replace the revenue lost by reducing I the income tax to a flat rate" by imposi ing a sales or turn-over tax on the lines so successful in Canada. At the Strand Theatre to-morrow cvemng Mr. J. W. Munro will lecture on th-o subject 'Are We a Democracy?" i under the auspices of the New Zealand Labour party. The weekly report received by thu I Automobue Association on the PokeuoI Paeroa Road states that three cars went through, auring the w«ek, but the Surrey Flat is much cut up owing to the driving of cattle over the road. : The "Rotorua Chronicle" states that recently a Rotorua resident reported the tlwft of a collecting box left on th* desired to help Dr. Bamardo'e Homes. The Pacific Cable Board advises that I™ c w .«'-ek-end service to the United KingI dom v temporarily expended owing to interruption of Atlantic cables. The 9.5. Tahiti, from Sydney for Wel- '„%' v at H a - m - yesterday, carrying fifteen b»ge of mail for Auckland.