GREETINGS BY RADIO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 8

GREETINGS BY RADIO.

FROM WOMEN'S INSTITUTE. |; ■ ' ■ ¥§ LADY BLEDISLOE ADDRESSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. ' I An enterprising, course of extending I the first welcome to Lady Bledisloe oil 1 behalf of the women of New Zealand . I associated with the Women's Instituto |g was taken to-night by Miss Agnes M. ||. Stops when speaking from 2YA on the ( pi subject of women's institutes. Explaining that Lady Bledisloe was |, keenly interested in the Women's Insti- |. tute, which has done so much, not only k in Great Britain but in 40 other coun- ® tries in the world, Miss Stops said that wireless advice had been given to Ladv Bledisloe of the talk and welcome, and j a inquest had been made that she should | listen in. It was estimated that Lady , j Bledisloe would be little more than 200 , miles away. Speaking into the microphone, Hiss jw Stops then said: "Lady Bledisloe, I hope you arc able to hear me. On behalf of g| Miss Jerome Spencer, chief organiser of the Women's Institute in New Zealand, || and of the members of the institute throughout the Dominion, it gives me most intense pleasure to use the modern || means of radio to extend to you tlie g first definite greeting from this country g. and from the women of New Zealand, and to express a hope that you will have a happy sojourn among us." « |