INFLUENCE IN PACIFIC ISLANDS
The influence of wireless broadcasting upon residents of the Pacific Islands is revealed in a letter received at 4TO, Townsville. The writer, a storekeeper at Milne Bay, Papua, is a man of nearly seventy. He says that loneliness used to be almost an ache, but wireless has altered things. “ Take last night,” to quote the letter, “as an. instance. Two prospectors had been here exchanging their gold at the store. They left at 5.45; at 5.59 I switched on the Radiola as usual to check the clock. From then on until bed-time there was not a moment of dullness. Contrast that with the time when one spent 350 evenings a year absolutely alone.” The writer goes on to say that in a few months he will be retiring. Ho hopes to call at 4TO to see the “ works ” of a broadcasting station.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 4
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146INFLUENCE IN PACIFIC ISLANDS Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 4
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