WELCOME BY RADIO

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 924, 18 March 1930, Page 16

WELCOME BY RADIO

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE GREETS LADY BLEDISLOE BROADCAST TO SHIP Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. An enterprising course of extending the first welcome to Lady Bledisloe on behalf of the women of New Zealand associated with the Women's Institute was taken tonight by Miss Agnes M. Stops, when speaking from 2YA on the subject of women’s institutes. Explaining' that Lady Bledisloe was keenly interested in the Women’s Institute, which has done so much not only in Great Britain, but in 40 other countries in the world, Miss Stops said that wireless advice had been given to Lady Bledisloe of the talk and welcome, and a request had been made that she should listen in. It was estimated that Lady Bledisloe would be little more than 200 miles away, and the welcome was timely. Speaking into the microphone. Miss Stops then said: “Lady Bledisloe, I hope you are able to hear me. On behalf of Miss Jerome Spencer, chief organiser of the Women’s Institute in New Zealand, and of the members of the institute throughout the Dominion, it gives me most intense pleasure to use the modern means of radio to extend to you the first definite greeting from this country and from the women of New Zealand, and to express a hope that you will have a hapy sojourn among us.”