WIRELESS FOR ESKIMOS.
In the cargoes of all vessels of tlio trading fleet, which sailed otio week recontly from Seattle, for tho far northern parts of Alaska and Siberia were radio sots. At every trading contre there is now a radio parts store where batteries and valves may bo purchased in trade for furs and ivory.
Last winter there was n famine of valves nnd this shipment of now supplies contains a large quantity. It was reported from Nome that a nativo travelled 250 miles by dog team to obtain a replacement for a burned-out radio valve of tho hoad man's receiving set at Walla.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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105WIRELESS FOR ESKIMOS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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