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PROGRESS IN BRITAIN ( Britith Official Wire' 0. ] Received Aug. 12, 5.15 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood, speaking at the Savoy Hotel lunch held for the forthcoming ,adio exhibition to be staged at Olym pia, London, this month, commented on the remarkable growth of broau casting in the United Kihgdom. He said that 4,500,000 people paid for wireless setf each year and there was -ittle doubt that the numbers would soon reach 5,000,000. Britain was leading the world in broadcasting, but the exploitation of wireless was only just beginning. The popularity and progress of wireless in the United Kingdom owed much to the British radio manufacturers, who had reason to be proud of the part they were playing in the development of broadcasting.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 190, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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