WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 20

WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS

The use of -wireless as-, a,.- means of increasing tho educational facilities hi! tho schools was suggested by the South-1 Canterbury Schbol-Comnriitees' Assoeia.-'! tion in a letter..■received"by; the Wellington Schddl';Conimittees/ ; ; Association this week. -I.fc. was*iii^n.tioiied . hi tnpP letter that i.wireless. ; .was, used .in, the'] schools in.iEngiancl, ibut'no oiie at. the I meeting knewr anything-'of tlio systam.'l 'Mr. J.; J,iCJark;;saidihe;'r did>jjbtr thiiik'1 tho scliemc-siiggcsted: would \vork very" well locally,, 'ihel. stations did not goi on the airiuntilop.m. Mr. N. A. Ingram {secretary): ;'^TO;:nie those innovations do-not 'appeal in., any shape or form." (Hear,/hear;))-v He ■ considered that any iSclio^V'/committees' association wou]d^e'/Vcry,;ill: advised to ask tho Government for. such an innovation just now, audv.he.moved-that;the Wellington Association 'should advise the South Canterbury Association that it could not endorse^ the-suggestion -for wireless in the schools, as it was of the opinion that if money, were to be expended it should be applied to giving increased capitation to school committees. The motion was carried unani^ mously.

A radio- telephone call" -was put through from Italy to.Sydney via .London on Monday night, just before 0.30 p.m. (New Zealand time), reports Mr.E. Leslie Jones. Speech was quite clear from Italy, both speakers speaking in Italian. Tho clarity of tho voice from Italy, notwithstanding the fact that the transmission was broadcast through and by London, was remarkably good and free of extraneous noises. I'ho speech was heard direct from London, on short-wave. The speech from Sydney was also excellent.