OUR WEATHER BUREAU.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1922, Page 3

OUR WEATHER BUREAU.

Tlie local observer for the Dominion Meteorological Department reports tiie following rain and .sunshine records loi the period ending Dee. 3. Rain Sunshine

AY IR E I .ESS Bit O A I )C ASTI X ( 1 . WELLINGTON'. December (>. About eight hundred permits for listening in have been issued to amateurs on wireless, and another tlii’C or four hundred are under cniisidemtioi:. Some twenty licenses tor sending were issue 1, hut the regulations under the Act have not yet been gazetted. One official expiessed ‘the opinion that broadcasting would only have a very short run as a knowledge of file

morse system, was required to pick up news ami | coplc. would soon get tired of gramophone icioids h,v wireless. It may ho mentioned that the went attempt here to give a public concert Was a dismal and hopeless failure. In England they have been talking of broadcasting lor many months, but up to the latest mail advises absolutely nothing was dime mid enquiries made of the British Wileless Broadcasting Company received a reply that it was impossible to say w hen a start would I a made. The manager of one leading Svdncy paper who recently made extensive enquiries in England, is also of opinion that Iho expected boom will come to nothing.

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