NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 11

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

PHOTOGRAPH BY WIRELESS,

A total of 2.234,05 S broadcast receiving station licenses had been issued in Great Britain on Juno 30. The American station, - KFON, transmitting on 241 metres, is now being heard regularly early in the evening by a number of Auckland listeners.

Germany is to erect shortly a ffl* gantic broadcasting station to work with a power of 100 kilowatts in the aerial on a wave length of 1250 metres. The station will bo located at Zecsben, twenty miles from Berlin. The. radio section of the United States of America Patent Office has doubled in size in the past six or seven years. Applications for radio patents number approximately 125 a month, as compared with about CO a month in 1920.

i A wireless photograph Is reported to have been responsible for the identification in New York of a man wanted for bank robbery in Vera Cruz. Although travelling under an assumed name, the man admitted his Identity when confronted with his radio likeness on landing in New York.

Delight is being expressed by Australian listeners at the decision of 2BL to reduce the amount of jazz music being broadcast by that station and to substitute drama. Three popular plays have already been broadcast, and others arc promised in ihe

oar future. ‘Phis Is a welcome liango from the surfeit of jazz uisio broadcast from all stations.