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Television In Australia PA AUCKLAND, Dec. 11. Within two years television will be operating on a commercial basis in Sydney and Melbourne, in the opinion of Mr H O. Wren, director of Celebrity Theatres Pty., Ltd., who arrived in the Aorangi from Sydney this morning. training centre for technicians had opened in Sydney, and a good deal of equipment had been acquired, he said. It might even be possible to start transmitting within 8 to 12 nonths One manufacturing company was ilready producing receiving sets. These vould retail at about £SO and could oe put on the market in six months ime. There was every indication that elevision would take on in Australia as it had done in the United States, he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27570, 12 December 1950, Page 8
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