BOY SCOUTS' RADIO.
NEW CANTERBURY STATION. FIRST IN THE EMPIRE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUECH, this day. The official opening of the radio station ZH3H2, owned and operated by the North Beach Rover Scout crew, took place last evening in the presence of Colonel Granville Walton, representing Imperial scout headquarters. To the North Beach troop falls the honour of being the first troop in the British Empire to own its own shortwave receiving and transmitting apparatus. It is also believed to be the first, scout-operated set in the world. The apparatus cost £00, an amount| raised by the scouts. It works oi? the! SO-metre" band. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 49, 27 February 1935, Page 8
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