WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1924, Page 7

WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS.

NEW SOUTH WALES SCHEME. Sydney, Nov. 6. No fewer than 78 schools:in New South Wales, most of them in thd country, now have their wireless sets, thqs enabling the pupiis and the parents to listen every day and night to lectures and' music broadcasted from Sydney. The cost of the wireless sets at country schools, has been borne by th e parents and citizens’ associations and by the local radio club. The big broadcasting services. of Farmer and Company have undertaken to transmit educational lectures free of cost to these out-back schools for two or three years and an inspector of the Education Department has been set apart to arrange suitable programmes daily. _ Since the lectures commenced at the beginning of the month there have been talks to the out-back youngsters by wireless'on health, literary,' nature and musical subjects, and geography. On Trafalgar Day a programme 1 befitting the occasion was broadcasted,/ with the poem, “Admirals All,” the song 1 “Ye Mariners of England,” sung by some of the suburban school boys, and a speech by the Governor, as its features. ’

It. is nlore than likely , that, before long, local companies wifi be formed in the country to establish broadcasting centres at places like Broken Hill, so that happenings in Sydney may be sent, through the ether to places now more or less cut off from* the city. The broadcasting programme arranged by the Education Department even goes sb far as to include, for country high schools, a French dictation exercise. • ;