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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13896, 20 January 1916, Page 3

One of the mosl> pathetic cases m New Zealand is that of the young man who entered the Maaterton Hospital to undergo a minor operation m order that ho might qualify for active service abroad says the Wairarapa Standard. Complications arose m connection with the operation, which necessitated the amputation of one of his legs. Although I! has not oven been to camp, he can ' isily claim to be one of the heroes of i he war. A few weeks ago (says the Wireless j.Vorld of November) a wireless operator m New Zealand distinctly heard the two West Australian -stations at Broome and Perth (approximately 3000 miles from Wellington), testing, but as the staff of the office where these signals were heard were inclined to doubt tjie genuineness of this, tjie operator wrote to the station at Broome quoting particu lars of what had been heard, and received a letter m reply giving a complete confirm ation. Considering that Ihe signals would have to 'traverse the \ hole of the continent, including desert, ." m! that they would 'have been subi cted to diffusion, diffraction, absorpt on, and so on, this record is remarkable.