OWN RADIO TELEPHONES
SERVICE ON SHEEP STATIONS.
SHORT WAVE TRANSMISSIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 23. A radio telephone service said-to be the first of its type to be used on a sheep station in New Zealand has been set up for Air 11. C, Acton Adams oil the Clarance Reserve estate at Kaikoura. There are two transmitters and two receivers, one sot at the station homestead and the other at the back station on the property 22 miles, away. For weeks and perhaps months at a time heavy' snow m winter makes communication by r horse or foot impossible or very slow. No telephone line would stand the storms and snow of the winter. The stations, for which a special permit had to be obtained from the Government, have been allotted a wavelength of 185 and 195 metres.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 July 1935, Page 7
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139OWN RADIO TELEPHONES Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 July 1935, Page 7
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