RADIO BOND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16360, 7 June 1927, Page 7

RADIO BOND

“WAKE UP, BRITAIN!” LONDON, May 24. Tiie Standard, in a leading article urging .the earliest possible estaolishment of Empire broadcasting, says: “It is not the laws, even of blood, which, in the long run, will keep tbs British Commonwealth united. Imperial Conferences may sit, and statesmen may make eloquent orations and devise ingenious formulas, but if the component countries seriously diverge them everything will break up.” Pointing out the importance of cricket as a bond of Anglo-Australian unity, the article stresses the fact that wireless programmes serve a far more extensive range of interest." “This opportunity must 110 longer be qeglected.” it says. “Moreover, another factor needs immediate consideration —namely, that the Dutch, not the British, ..station helped our programme to the Antipodes, reflecting on British wireless proficiency. Could not a British firm have embarked oil this undertaking,” “The company expects to broadcast to Australia, Canada and South Africa, in 1928, but the question of providing a new station for that purpose is not yet settled, pending the conclusion of the present experiments at Daventry. The technical equipment of such a. station may-entail triple directional transmission to reach all of .the Dominions, but- tlie finance, rather than technique, is the present question.” “Why don’t we do it?” asks the Daily Mail, referring to the address recently broadcast by the Dutch Colonial Minister from PCJJ, the Eindhoven experimental station. Among other places the address was heard in the Far East. The Daily Mail points out that experts have declared that the King could broad cast over the beam if suitable microphones and other apparatus were installed, which should not take long.