RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 4

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

DUNEDIN'S EMERGENCY FORCE

TWENTY-TgREE OPERATORS ASSISTING

Twenty-three Dunedin amateurs ar6 co-operating with the emergency communications section of the city’s emergency committee. These amateurs have signified their willingness to provide Dunedin with radio communication if tim need ever arises. This has given a big. impetus to the Dunedin KEG, who are now very active with as many as five operators taking part in the REC practises come nights. Besides the REG emergency AC supply, some of the local amateurs are considering AC generator sets for their own stations. It seems that it the worst ever happens to Dunedin she will not, at any rate, lack radio communications. L. R. Stroud (4AP), the father of Dunedin amateurs, is the amateur representative on the City Emergency Committee. NO COMMUNITY SING BAN NOT FOLLOWING MELBOURNE LEAD STILL AS STRONG AS EVER IN SYDNEY “ Community singing in Sydney was never so strong as it is now,” said the A.B.C. community singing Conductor, when asked if there was any likelihood of the commission’s following the recent Melbourne decision to discontinue community concerts. “ the concerts have definite programme value, and provide a valuable link with the public,” he added. “ There is no falling off in attendances, which proves that they are of interest to a large number of people.” SELF CHARITIES. The proceeds of all concerts are used to install, and maintain, radio Sets in public hospitals and institutions. Of late the quality and popularity of concerts held in regional districts, sUch as Grafton and Newcastle, have encouraged the A.B.C. to include Casino in their number, and concerts will be heard from that centre very shortly, '.•w.i! artists are always given an opportunity to broadcast wherever the concerts are held.