RADIO CLUB NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20165, 20 July 1935, Page 10

RADIO CLUB NOTES

Hon. Secretary and Treasurer— D. W. Beswick, 197 Otipua Road.

At the last meeting of the Club those present spent a very enjoyable evening listening to a talk by Mr C. E. Hassall, who spoke on “Newspapers.” The speaker detailed the activities of various departments—commercial, literary, type-setting, composing, stereotyping, printing and distributing—of a daily newspaper, and traced the evolution of mechanical processes from the days of hand-setting and hand-printing to the high-speed operations of the present day. The methods of gathering world news also were described. Next week a Question Box- evening will be held.

Arrangements are well in hand for a Sunday evening broadcast from 3YA in the near future. This will be given by the Timaru Municipal Band and leading South Canterbury artists.

The Hospital equipment is -working very well, and breakdowns are a thing of the past. Since the inception of the system of obtaining a deposit on headphones there has been little damage to this part of the equipment. The deposit is refunded when the patient is discharged from Hospital.

A survey made by the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce based on “the best references available” gives the number of receiving sets in use in the world as 58,582,474. These are supplied with programmes from 58 long, 1537 medium (broadcast band) and 136 shortwave broadcasting stations. Statistics from 131 countries have been combined to produce this total, which sets forth the position about the end of last year. North America, with over 26,000,000 sets in use, and Europe, with about 22,000,000 receiving sets, are easily at the head of the lists of continents. The United States of America, with 25,551,569 receivers and 631