ADVANCE IN WIRELESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 9

ADVANCE IN WIRELESS.

DOMINION POSSEBI'LITI'E'S. AUSTRALIAN VISITOR’S VIEWS. Dwellers in the back blocks, no leas than residents in. cities, may look to wireless telephony in the future as a means of brightening their lives. It would seem that the day is not far distant when the farmer, his day’s work completed, wlil be able to receive the latest stock and crop market quotations, and to “listen in” to city concerts. Thus the evenings will be made pleasurable, and this may well serve to counteract in some degree the drift to the towns. IFew men are more alive to the possibilities of wireless than Mr. John Harrington, of Sydney, founder and managing director of Harringtons, Ltd., who was interviewed in Wellington a few days ago. Mr. Harrington expressed the view that the position in regard to oroadeasting and listening-in was not exactly satisfactory in New Zealand. He understood however, that legislation was about to ~e enacted which would enable Ne'w Zealander!? to obtain good broadcasting service at a reasonable cost. When that was brought about it would prove a great boon, not only to be public, but to traders, whose business it was to supply the public with their radio requirements. Although at present radio dealers were “having a rough spin,” he was confident that if they only held on they would be rewarded by the business which would accrue when broadcasting was properly established. Dealing vfath the trend of wireless events in Australia, Mr. Harrington said that any type of receiving set might be used. When the new regulations -were put into force, there was an immediate response by the public, and there was a regular boom now, particularly in New South Wales, where t'wo broadcasting stations were already established. The firm of Harrington is one of the largest distributors and manufacturers of wireless supplies in Australia. In Sydney alone the firm employs over a dozen salesmen in the radio department. Daily demonstrations are given in listening-in, together with instruction in the use of sets and the assembling of gets, the last-mentioned being of particular interest to amateurs making their own apparatus. The firm has engaged halls throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, in which wireless entertainments are given.