RADIO DEVELOPMENT.
VALUE TO COUNTRY DAVELLERS. BENEFIT IN - HOSPITALS. SYDNEY, Dec. 16. The conference of the Association for the Development of AVireless in Australia and New Zealand and Fiji decided to send a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr S. M. Bruce) requesting certain amendments to the bill winch was introduced in the House of Representatives to enact the agreement between Amalgamated Wireless and the Federal Government. The president, Mr George Taylor, said that the five-year period in which no royalties would be' charged for the use of patents for broadcasting should also cover television and other important radio improvements. The hill should be amended to allow the interlinking of country centres. The Minister of Health, Dr. Arthur, said that radio was bringing the country dwellers into contact with all sorts of influences that they were denied previously, and was making them more contented with their -lot. Listening sets in hospitals had become therapeutic agents, diverting the patients’ minds from their trouble.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 17, 19 December 1927, Page 2
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