VALUE OF WIRELESS
A KECENT INCIDENT.
(BT TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POST.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. The value of wireless in cases of emergency was demonstrated at Ashburton on a recent Sunday. A patient in the local hospital was dangerously ill, and it was desired to summon - his daughter, who was in Auckland. As the telegraph office was closed, friends of the sick man resorted to wireless in an endeavour to get a message through. A low-power-ed broadcasting plant was the only one available, and from it the urgent appeal was sent out. Someone, evidently, an amateur, in Wellington, picked up the message from that city. A telegram was sent to Auckland at 6.10 p.m., one hour a^ rore the express left for the South, me Auckland telegraph officials succeeded in communicating by telephone with the lady to whom the message was addressed, and siic was thus able to catch the train. '■'%. gh, unfortunately, her father died on iiie Monday, and shereached his bedside too late. She is now desirous of thanking the unknown person in Wellington who forwarded the message.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 6
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179VALUE OF WIRELESS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 6
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