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Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1924, Page 4

WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS. SYDNEY. .July in,

The proposal to establish wireless ill outback schools, following upon the tests at liourke, lias, - as one of its main aims, the removal of that sense of isolation from the smaller remote! communities which is one of their, greatest handicaps. The idea primar- j ily is to afford them same compensation by this means for flic lack of those social and intellectual advantages which the city enjoys, with its daily newspapers, bringing to it the news of the world, its lectures, concerts and other musical and theatrical entertainments. In the smaller outback ( cum mtin it it > it i, hoped that co-opern-lmil will enable the local schools, with their wireless, to become social centres at night.; common centres, in short, 1

for the enjoyment of all those pleasure-, which are at the door of theii city cousins—opera, high-class concerts, organ recitals and other musical entertainments, lectures, addresses, and so on. And just as it is hoped to enlarge the environment of the adult outback, so it is hoped to bring to the youngsters the music, the: storytelling and other features of wellequipped city schools. Already one of the broadcasting companies has uifered to make its studio and wireless plant available twice a week for school pur-, poses. At far away Dourke, -100 miles west of Sydney, during the recent tests the pupils listened by means of wireless to an address by the Director of Education (Air S, 11. Smith), who at one time was the headmaster of their own school.