BROADCASTING.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 126, 1 April 1926, Page 1

BROADCASTING.

A TRUE ROMANCE. The Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand (Ltd.) recently received a letter from a town in Queensland asking for an S.O.S. message to be broadcast to “ A. 8.,” boatswain on board a ship trading between New Zealand and the East. His brother, “ 8.8.,” of the same town, was seriously ill, and. his nephews wanted his address. Every likely port .they could think of had been written to without success. One evening they happened to pick up the company’s Dunedin station. and thought they might possibly get into touch with “ A.;8.” by wireless. He, it appears, wrote to his people only once in every ten years, so it can be understood how hard it would be to find him by ordinary means. Because he sometimes sent a New Zealand paper it was considered he must be somewhere near the Dominion. An S.O.S. was broadcasted as requested from the company’s Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin stations. Now comes word from Auckland that the station there located the missing man. He was informed of the contents of his relatives' letter and communicated with them at once.

To establish communication from so great a distance with an obscure person of no fixed at ode is surely no mean achievement, and, affords to the general put lie some idea of the increasing possibilities and wonders of wireless. ■ .