DISEASE GERMS
CARRIED BY AIR CURRENTS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian Press Association.—United florvice) ‘ LONDON,, 17th July. It is possible for the germ of foot and mouth disease to travel long distances hv upper air currents, and human epidemics are carried iu the same way, according to W. Dillon Weston, of the University School of Agriculture at Cambridge. Mr Weston slates that ho undertook many flights in an endeavour lo trace how plant and crop diseases spread, and proved that the spores and bacteria wore found at great heights. A large number of bacteria were active even two miles above tlie earth.
Australia’s new National Broadcasting Service was officially opened in Sydney last night by the lion. W. (!. Gibson, Postmaster-General, whose speech was relayed 200 miles by. telephone from Canberra. The speeches and a special opening programme were broadcast from 2FC and the rece.plion in Nelson was excellent. Sir Benjamin Fuller was one of the prime movers in the. establishment, of the new service.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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