RADIOGRAPHS.
If one imports a set from abroad he Is faced with the question of service. When a set is bought in New Zealand the trader gives full service if there is any trouble in the set not due to any fault of the purchaser “Switch” knows of two private persons who imported their own sets, found that the shaking-up they had received in steamer transit had caused internal derangement in their sets, not noticeable until an attempt was made to operate them. As the sets had been taken delivery of and then carried by rail, the importers were unable to establish an insurance claim. By the lime they had paid for a radio mechanic to put the sets right, the importers found they could have bought better sets in New Zealand at less total cost. Amalgamated Wireless has now taken over control of radio telegraphy and broadcasting in Fiji. Programmes from these adjacent tropical isles must be rendered under a severe handicap of very restricted available talent, but we should soon come into close touch with the archipelago of sugar and bananas.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17326, 11 February 1928, Page 11
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