"Helio George"

NZ Truth, Issue 1193, 11 October 1928, Page 6

"Helio George"

WHEN you come to think of it, radio inspectors have rather an unenviable sort of a job. Their chief public pursuits '.appear- to be rounding xip defaulters or sleuthing after oscillating "Oswalds!'-* arid those execrated valves which- bay o' nights like a mastiff m distress! But so far the iron hasn't entered the soul of George H. Scull, the spruce and natty inspector at Auckland. Evidently he takes the philosophical view that jobs are mostly what- you make them. - In the books of the P. arid T. Department, George has. a score of years on the credit side. Becoming exceedingly bored with common or garden telegraphy, he switched over some years ago tothe Marconi variety. He did many a weary stretch m the silences of the night with the receivers glued to his lobes. But he got "next" to the mysteries of radio and caught its glamor. George is a handy chap to know when you are unable to make a choice betwen a neutrodyne and a counterphase, and he doesn^t bewilder you with a stream of technical verbiage. He is a captain m charge of the Northern Signal Depot. He rather dislikes militarism as such, but has a lot of use for the signalling arm of the service, with its \field wireless, its semaphores and helibs and buzzers 'n' everything. \