AMBULANCE & RADIO

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 10

AMBULANCE & RADIO

Receivers To Be Installed In Wellington Cars

The installation of radio receiving sets In the eight ears of the Wellington Free Ambulance service, following a decision of the board on December 14, will be carried out early next week, the superintendent, Mr. F. Roffe, said yesterday- The new service will enable each car when out to be in constant touch with the main station, and to proceed immediately to any accident in the same locality as the one it happens to be attending. The receiving sets would be tuned in to the one station, 2ZB, said Mr. Roffe, and a code word would be used between the studio and the ambulance station to ensure that every call transmitted was a genuine one. There would be a saving in mileage as well as an increase in the efficiency of the service. He had studied the system on his last trip to Australia. In Sydney there was tr two-way system, transmitting as well as receiving, the plant for which had cost £5OOO. He bad enthusiastic reports from the superintendent of the Lismore station, Queensland, which worked with a broadcasting station as the Wellington board proposed to do. It had been mentioned that worry might be caused to people in cars fitted with radio sets when they heard a particular locality given as the scene of an accident. That cotud not be avoided, and the advance in. efficiency of an essential public service would outweigh any' inconvenience caused.,