DOMINION EVENTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 21 November 1923, Page 8

DOMINION EVENTS.

PER CHESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT AI.CKLAND, November 20. It is believed that a single mall named Martin Gelden, aged 24 years, was drowned in the harbour oft Queen’s Wharf on Saturday evening. At the time, it was reported to the Harbour Board officials that a man had fallen into the water, and on a dinghy being lowered, a cap, now indentified as Gelden's, was recovered. A peculiar feature is. that a man heard a splesh and saw a floating object in the water, bui did not realise that a fatality «as enacting, and diet not give the alarm until the object han sunk. Gelden had no relatives in the Dominion. DANNEVTHKE, November 20. The wireless broadcasting policy of the Government, was referred to by the Postmaster-General at the opening of the Dannevirke Post Office to-day. Air Coates said that wireless broadcasting had been carried on in several centres of the Dominion for softie time past in a somewhat unsettled way. The entertainments were of poor class, chiefly owing to lack of revenue to provide better programmes. The only manner in which boardeasting could be made satisfactory from a financial and popular point of view was to have a Dominion-wide scheme or some organisation under semi-Government. control. He suggested the following as a basis of a scheme which would give genera) satisfaction:- - (1) Those interested in broadcasting, chiefly dealers in wireless apparatus, to form an association, with authority to issue debentures or raise capital any way they thought, fit; (2) the proposed association to be granted a license to broadcast from each of the four centres—Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin; (.3) the association to be controlled by a Board consisting of the PostmasterGeneral, a representative of the listen-ers-in. a representative of the radio trade, and certain officials appointed by the Postmaster-General; the boards casting stations to have equipment equivalent, in power to } k.w.. and be allowed a. bond of wave lengths as stipulated in a national agreement for this class of work; hours and items for broadcasting to be controlled by regulation: the listenei s’-in license fee to be increased to £1 or £1 Is, half of this fee to be handed to the association. tho other half to the Post and Telegrap.i Department; the Government to have access to the accounts of the Broadcasting Association; the proceeds of the license fees to be divided among the four stations on a population basis, according to the number of listeners-in in the area served by each station; dealers in radio apparatus to be licensed at a. fee from £5 to £lO per annum; no monopoly in the sale of apparatus to be permitted. He suggested a conference of representatives of all interested at an early date to evolve a satisfactory scheme. WELLINGTON. Nov. 20.

Some months ago the Live Stock Division of the Department of Agriculture got in touch by cable with Professor H. .J. Quayle, the United Slates specialist, with a view to securing a supply of calcium cyanide for a practical te-t of its efficacy as an agent for the destruction of rabbits. The material was obtained. and tested in various places, with very promising results. A larger supple has since, conic to hand, and further tests are now in progress. The question of comparative cost when compared with other methods, and having regard to relative efficiency are being also worked out. (liven continued satisfactory results, the Department will take the necessary steps to enable supplies to be available to settlers. DUNEDIN, November 19. William McKenzie, 22 years, residing at 1-1 Napier Street, Mornington, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 3.15 p.m. to-day, suffering from injuries to his head and one of his elbows. He. was returning from Georgetown, North Otago, on a motor bicycle, on Sunday night with a companion, when he accidentally fell to the ground through some unknown cause.