IMPORTED SETS

Shannon News, 6 December 1927, Page 2

IMPORTED SETS

Probably no country lias a greater variety of receiving sets than we have in New Zealand. In addition to many New Zealand-made sets there is a wide choice available of imported sets and components.

It would appear t)iat the American imports exceed ihose of all other countries, both in complete sets and component parts. This is due to the fact that until recently Europ e had been about 18 months behind America in the development and production of wireless receivers. Descriptions of the apparatus exhibited at the recent London Radio Olympia show that British manufacturers hav e caught up in progress. . Not all the European countries show the same progressive tendency. Th c countries where radio seems to have won the public popularity most widely are Great Britain, Germany and Russia. Strangely enough, Prance is not as well to the fore as might be expected.

The export figures for 1925 and 1926 show a steady advance by Germany and a decline both, by England and Amei’ica. America exported £2, 042,000 worth of radio goods in 1925, while in 1926 the figures decreased to £1,813,000. Great Britain’s figures for the same years were £1,280,000 in 1925, and, £1,266,000 in 1926. Germany, on the other hand, exported radio goods to the value of £1,475,000 in 1925, and of £1,581,000 in 1926.