In all parts of America schoolboys and:other amateurs havo rigged up an apparatus upon; houses,. barns, ana woodsheds for receiving wireless messages, and thoso ingenious youths occasionally make such- indiscriminate use of distress and other signals in ,> ■the Government is being urged to taho action, with tho object of preventing wireless confusion, '■ more particularly along'tho American coast; Sofne stores in'the/big cities in America sell wire-, less plants, which are fairly efficient for short distances, and it is estimated Wiat over 60,000 'ingenious American boys have installed nondescript stations ■at their own expenso, ranging from > a few shillings to £6 or'£7. It is I v asserted ' that tlieso youngsters occasionally break into Government messages and. i'send. "fake", alarms, hurrying revenue cutters to sea in aid of: a supposed vessel in ; distress, and so oil. : Onr Vulcanising Kxpert Ofcfrty years with leading English Factory) tindertakes all repairs—Retreading, Relining, Be vulcanising. Only Up-to-date Plant 60uth- of the line. Any style tread matched.. Cyclo and Motor Snppliaj, Company, Farish St.. WBllin^tgn.—Advt Denmark's cp-opci'ativo agricultural societies, to which England largely owes her cheap supply of dairy produco, have an aunual turnover of over. £2.700,000.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 778, 30 March 1910, Page 7
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189Untitled Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 778, 30 March 1910, Page 7
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