, .f Shoirt-wave wireless; tielepbonY ^was recently used in England in 'connection with a hay-rick fire •lastrng two days, in order to maintain communjeatioii between the nien worMng at tbe fire and those at tbe pumping engine ->threequarters of a mile away* .GThdGchief officer holds a 'licence to operate An experimental , trahkmission station, and for some time has been .making a portable transmission set witb ^a- range of thr£e miles for the -fire service use. Tbe rick fire, in a remote cotihtry district, . provided a severe test, but tbe apparar tus pr oved entirely- successfuli' Ronald Oolman has '"been! signed hy Hal Roach for the starring-Tole in the comedy "Fancy Free.""One work, The. Tree,* hy Sydney Box, I find xmintelligible,' hut it has won prizes, so it must rnean something to somebody," says ?a Londoga writer in commenting; o.n "Hgght Qne^act Plays of 1937," jusjb puhlished.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 10
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