INSECT TO BROADCAST.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1924, Page 4

INSECT TO BROADCAST.

I,OX IH)X, August 2. Eor the first •time in the history of British broadcasting on Saturday next an insect will transmit by wireless ils own characteristic noise. This will occur during a talk by .Mr Hugh Main on Dor Beetles, when one of them will reproduce the drone they make in Might. The Dor Beetle is ail insect usually about an inch long, and somewhat like a ladybird in shape.

AS OTHERS SEE I'S. LONDON, August 2. Delegates to the recent I liicriiut imiat Advertising Convention from Houston, Texas, I'nited Stales, whore the Convention is to he held next year, hade farewell to their Hrilish hosts at a luncheon party ill the Hotel Metropolis London yesterday. Emir representative citizens <>l ’lexas were asked by a reporter what had struck tlielil most about England. Their replies were: Judge 11. M. Harwood: The celerity of English justice. Captain W. Lea, Mayor of Orange. Texas: Your .system of giving the dole to the unemployed. You are breeding thus a race of paupers and encouraging idleness. Noil have a inililnii unemployed and vast areas in the Colonies awaiting development. Mr Robert I. Cohen (owner of big stores and mills): The rebuilding of London and the creation ol vast modern stores. Yet many people insist on Irving to do business in antiquated premises. Also, who do you print the menus in a foreign language at yoiu hotels and restaurants ? Mr Robert 11. Cornell : Why are yon keeping your great \\ cinbley Exhibition such a secret, and why do \oU persist in pulling your shirts over your heads, when you can buy American coat, shirts that hut t. n up the front ?