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[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FEMALE FARMERS. “ WAIPUKUR'AU, -March 29. A largely attended meeting of ladies was addressed here hy Mr M. J. Poison, Dominion President of the Women's Division of the Farmers’ Union and the meeting formed a local branch. NEW ZEXPAND TEAM SAILS. WELLINGTON, -March 29. The New Zealand cricket team embarked lb-day. Their seml-olf at the wharf was marked hy great enthusiasm. T here was also a large attendance at their civic function at the Town Hall. Mr Nosworlhy spoke on behalf of the Government, Sir F. Bell as President of the Wellington Cricket Association, and as Vice-President of the New Zealand Association.
BROADCASTING. CHRISTCHURCH, March 27. On his first visit to 3Y.A. Ch. Ch. station, of Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand h st night, the Prime Minister gave an address dealing with the broadcasting economic position and universal questions. He said the recent tests of the new boarffy wireless system between Australia and Britain had been watched with great interest- hy the Government. It was essential that New Zealand should provide itself uuii the most modern and effective system of wireless communication, and at the same time the most economical. It was hardly reasonable to expect a country with about one and a half million people to expend Incite sums of money on an undertaking which had up to the present been very largely of an experimental nature There hail lieen extensive improvements in recent years and indeed others were pending, which might make it possible for New Zealand to have a complete system of communication, hy wireless at a cost satisfactory to all. No one can fail to recognise the great service that broadcasting, properly conducted can give to a country, said Mr Coates. A few weeks ago I was able to arrange for the reception and publication in New Zealand of daily wireless messages broadcasted by the British Foreign Office from England's great station at Rugby, with the result that authoritative information i.s available in New Zealand simultaneously with its publication in the United Kingdom,
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1927, Page 2
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