HIGH PRAISE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1932, Page 6

HIGH PRAISE

FOR EMPIRE BROADCAST. '(United Press Association— By Electric •Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 10 a.in.) LONDON, December 27. Many especially the United States -,«nd v France, highly praise jjhis broadcasting triumph. French newspapers interpret the monarch’s wireileM to »his subjects in ere'.y comei of the P rc?of 9 f the inl,ate sol--e’ a, ‘ d B,,g * gest .that France, as head of the secend ilar'irieans to keep her colonies m contact with the spirit of France. The “News .Chronicle” says: “This broadcasting feat has- given a new meaning-'-to tlio people—a link with the Crown— just at the moment when the - of the modern world seemed to be undermining its reality.*' The “Times” says 'that within a decade broadcasting will. have enlarged its capacity beyond the sphere of merely agreeable, amusing, and instructive, and will become, when the right speaker is speaking'at the right season, as the King did on Christmas Day, an instrument, potent for the good of ah mankind. BItpAWASTINC TRIUMPH. (Receiver! Dec. 28th. at 8 a.m.). SYDNEY, December 27.

His .Majesty’s Broadcast on Christinas Day was heard at Sydney, early in the morning,, and was most distinct. There was a. slight fading now and again, and only a word or two was lost. Reports froth throughout the Commonwealth state that the reception was a Jriumpli for long-distance broadcasting.