NEW RADIO STATION
£6,000 PLANT ORDERED FOR TINOKORI EXPERT SENT TO AUSTRALIA A new wireless station, costing £6,000, is to be erected by the Government on the Tinokori Hill, Wellington. The Postmaster-General, the Hon. J. B. Donald, has approved of the trip to Syndey and Melbourne of Mr. J. R. Smith, engineer-in-chief of the Post and Telegraph Laboratories, to see the new plant. Work on the new station will begin almost immediately. . While in Australia Mr. Smith will watch the assembling of all the new plant for the station so that he will understand it thoroughly. The plant will then be taken apart and brought to New Zealand. The new station will be fitted with short-wave transmitting apparatus and will make the station at Awanui obsolete.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 686, 11 June 1929, Page 1
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126NEW RADIO STATION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 686, 11 June 1929, Page 1
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