CENSUS BY RADIO
Resourceful Back-Country Shepherd UNIQUE DOCUMENT IFy Telegraph—Press Association.' BLENHEIM, April 9. Ouo of the most interesting sidelights of the census that have come under the notice of the Government Statistician is a return furnished by a sheep-station hand in the Marlborough hinterland by short-wave wireless. This man, Mr A. J. McKenzize, supervises the back country of the Molcsworth station in a locality known as Rainbow, at the headwaters of the Wairau river. After a fruitless ride over rugged country to get a census' paper his horse knocked up. However, Mr McKenzie is an amateur wireless enthusiast, and after hearing the schedule read over 2YA he communicated with Mr J. S. Furness, a Blenheim wireless amateur, giving the necessary data. Mr Furness filled in the census paper on Mr McKenzie's behalf.
The unique document then had to bo despatched to the postmaster at Waidu, in whose district Rainbow is. It completed a round-about journey when it reached the Government Statistician, who has written to Mr Furniss praising his and Mr McKenzie’s resourcefulness and initiative, which formed a “refreshing contrast to the casual and indifferent attitude of a section of the population.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 5
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193CENSUS BY RADIO Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 5
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