POPULARITY OF WIRELESS.
AN AMUSING DEVELOPMENT. TRADE RIVALRY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Feb. 11, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 10. Apart from the Post Office figures showing that wireless licenses last year yielded a revenue of £250,055, of which £189,183 went to the British Broadcasting Company, there are other proofs of the wide vogue of wireless licensing. A court witness to-day declared that workers now preferred wireless 'to whisky, but the most amusing development is an outburst of trade rivalry, which originated through a fruit salesman broadcasting a ditty urging people to eat more fruit, which was less injurious than meat. Thereupon the aggrieved butchers broadcasted “Eat more meat.’’ Now the fishmongers have taken up the challenge, and tomorrow all Billingsgate salesmen have been ordered to assemble at nine o’clock, to devote half an hour to rehearsing a wireless chorus “Eat more fish.’’ —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 7
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145POPULARITY OF WIRELESS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 7
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