WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1929, Page 11

WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS

PROPOSAL TO MINISTER

INFORMATION" WANTED

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHEISTCEUKOH, This Day

A proposal to allow radio broadcasting to form more or less part of the school curriculum was mado to the Minister of Education (the Hon. 11. Atniorc) by Mr. .<s*!. E. Straehan, director of Badio Station 3ZO. Mr. Strachan suggested that a Commission should be sot up to inquire into the whole question of radio broadcasting in tho Dominion, with particular reference to the establishment ,of a broadcasting service independent of tho present system. He said that his station asked for no financial assistance from the Government or from listeners-in.

With reference to the schools, Mr. Straehan said that a number of subjects were suitable for instruction by wireless.

Mr. Atmore: "It would be very expensive to equip all the schools with receiving sets?"

Mr. Strachan said that the cost of a set to give effective reception for two hundred miles would bo from £20 to £25. The sets would be a God-send to country schools, where one teacher was called upon to teach children of all ages.

In reply, the Minister asked Mr. Strachan to forward particulars as to the extent to which broadcasting was being used in other schools of other countries.