WIRELESS IN TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18941, 12 February 1925, Page 9

WIRELESS IN TRADE.

BROADCASTING DITTIES. RIVALS AND THEIR CHORUSES. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 10. There are other proofs of the wide vogue of wireless than the Post Office figures, which show that licenses last year yielded a revenue of £250,055, of which £189,183 went to the British Broadcasting Company. Tho most amusing development is an outburst of trade rivalry. This originated in fruit salesmen broadcasting a ditty urging people to "eat more fruit, which is less injurious than meat." Thereupon the aggrieved butchers broadcasted a song, "East more meat." Now the fishmongers have taken up tho challenge. To-morrow morning, all the Billingsgate salesmen have been ordered to assemble at nine o'clock to devote half an hour to rehearsing a wireless chorus, "Eat more fish." LINK WITH DOMINIONS. NEW BEAM STATION SITES. Reuter. ' LONDON, Fob. 10. Sir William Mitchell Thompson, Post-master-General, states that sites for the beam wireless stations in connection with the Canadian and South African services have been selected near Bodmin and Bridge water. The terms of purchase have been agreed to, and it is hoped the sites will be placed at the disposal of the contractors before February 28. HEARD ON ITALIAN TRAIN. AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA. A. and N.Z. ROME, Feb. 10. By means of a two-valve est arranged on a new principle with one electric light wire as an aerial, an sxpreris train on the Italian front picked up messages from two American and one Australian amateur wireless stations..