BROADCASTING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 20 October 1924, Page 14

BROADCASTING.

OPERATIONS RESUMED. . (SPKCIAL TO- "th* P£x«B.'') WELIjIXCtTOJC, October IS. No time lias been lost by the Post-master-General (tbe Hon. J. G. Coates) in putting into execution the intention to take tip the cudgels against tbe Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., in regard to broadcasting. Some days ago> the - Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., intimated that it intended to take action against broadcasting firms for infringements of rights if they continued broadcasting. Following on this ultimatum tho Government put through 'an amendment of tho Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, authorising the broadcasters to continue their operations as agents of tbe Crown. To-day tbe* Postmaster-General informed a reporter that all broadcasting firms bad been informed that they could resume -broadcasting as from tonight. As agents of tbe Crown, they now liad full authority to carry on their activities as heretofore.'

I The popularly-accepted idea. 'that i China is overcrowded,; and that the | country cannot support a greater popu- | lation, was refuted by Professor P. M. ; Boxby, of the department of geography of the University of Livert pool, in an address, before the British ' Association for the Advancement of Science at Toronto. The cities of China, vyhich are all that most travellers see of that country, are unquestionably overcrowded, Professor Boxby admits, and for some time there is seant prospect of a readjustment in population. But there are still great areas thinly populated, and when the political status of the country beeomes more settled and better means of communication developed, a redistribution pi the poptdatioiL will take 'plaee*