BOYS FOR RADIO

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)

BOYS FOR RADIO

CHANCES IN GROWING INDUSTRY. Radio manufacturers dealers ar« experiencing a shortage of skilled assistants, and training classes are to be established to encourage boys to enter what is still an expanding profession. The College of Technology at Manchester is said to be considering a special course for students. The first essential for a wireless student is, of course, a thorough grounding in. electricity. We need in this industry .to rely not on rule of thumb but on knowledge. The entire field of electricity is enormous, and no boy . can go wrong in becoming an electrical student Equipped with a sound scientific training he is ready to move in many promising directions. He would also do well, to study the problems of light and acoustics. The field covered by wireless is now so great that the International Radio Conference found it necessary to set up fourteen committees to survey the various branches of the subject.

AUTHOR SEES AGAIN SURGEON CURES DR. AXEL MUNTHE With gratitude to a clever surgeon of Zurich University the famous Axel Munthe, the Swedish author, has returned to his beloved island of Capri to enjoy once more those scenes of beauty for which it has always been renowned. Dr. Munthe is the author of The Story of San Michele, a book which has been translated into every great language. He is, too, a great lover of animals, and persuaded the Italian Government to declare Capri a bird sanctuary, thus putting ah end to the cniel practice of trapping quails there. In the last few years he became almost blind, but as. a result of the operation at Zurich he can now see by the aid of spectacles. A The surgeon was Professor Alfred Vogt, with whom Lord Grey of Fallodon spent many a happy hour beside the Swiss rivers when recovering from an operation at his hands.

TROUBLE ■. ■' . . i ASTONISHING COTTON CHANGES. . ’ . : r’/ Although Lancashire’s trade affects all England, few people outside the cotton industry realise what a change has oc-’ curred in cotton exports since 1913.. No one before the war dreamed that such a decline was possible. Exports of cotton piece-goods to all the world in 1913 were 7075 million yards. Last year they were down to 2115 ' millions. ■ ’ ■ India in 1913 took 3057 million yards; in 1933 she took only 440 millions. The Chinese market in 1913 took 733 million yards; In 1933 only 63 millions. Nearly all other markets showed declines.

THE JACKDAW RED CAR PLAYMATE OF CHILDREN. The boys and girls of Redcar in Yorkshire are met by an unusual playmate as they come home from schooL He is a jackdaw, who loves to: have, a game, with them. His favourite game is to find a twig or leaf, fly with it to a group of children, and put it on the ground, defying them to take it from him. ‘ He is so agile that very few have succeeded in doing this.' ■ ■ The bind is not afraid of th® children, and does not mind how many gather round to play with him. ~ '■■ ■■ ■ r . ' "I.- ’ ■■