EMERGENCY RADIO

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1938, Page 3

EMERGENCY RADIO

1 Promise to Wairoa PLANS UNDER WAY. WAIROA, May 14. As a result of an exchange of correspondence between the Postmaster General (the Hon. F. Jones and Mr F. Berry, a member of the Wairoa Borough Council an emergency radio station is to be established in Wairoa. Mr Berry wrote to the Minister asking if it would be possible for him to make arrangements for the prompt use of a radio service in cases of emergency and isolation such as Wairoa had recently suffered. There are many people cut off from the outside world, Mr Berry stated in his letter, who had, re-, lations and friends in other parts" of New Zealand who were just as worried as to their safety. _ | Mr Jones has replied: “I am in receipt of pour letter regarding the Hawke’s Bay flood and note what you say in reference to a question of radio communication in times of emergency. As you are aware, my department has an emergency radio equipment at numerous'points, in the Dominion to be used in cases 1 where a complete breakdown of the, land line communication service oe-, curs. I

“In view of the recent experience in your locality arrangements have been made for the installation of an emergency radio station at Wairoa."