Superintendent Jim

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

Superintendent Jim

QOME of these Government wireless O men are not merely in close touch with the wide, wide world, but have managed to see a tidy portion of it. Consider the case of James Hampton, superintendent of the radio station at Awarua. You don't know where that is? Well, if - you board the Bluff train at Invercargill, ere long you will observe that the masts of the radio station are the most prominent landmarks on the dreary, uninspiring Awarua plains. ■ Lonely- sort of a place, bat Jim — so called by his many intimates — doesn't seem to mind it. He entered the radio service in its adolescent days and from time to time has been posted to all the N.Z. stations, including Rarotonga, Where • large-sized golden oranges are used as paper-weights and pen-nib wipers! ■ J. H. also saw active service with that rarely-mentioned unit of the N.Z.E.F. — the wireless signal squadron —which lent a valuable technical hand in the torrid Mesopotamia campaign to the then sorely-harassed- Indian Army. . . ■ • , ' v Jim is not big as inches go, but If heart and grey matter count most, he'll measure up without effort. And 'fShips that pass in the night'.' know that in the wondrous world of radio service "All's well at Awarua."