TOURIST’S TRIBUTE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 3

TOURIST’S TRIBUTE.

Using the Radio-’Phone At Christmas. “It will perhaps even make me forget about the weather, which did not correspond to what I had expected from your famous New Zealand summer,” writes a tourist who has indicated to the Post Office his dulight at the. technical triumph which enabled him to brighten a dull Christmas Day at Rotorua by talking to his family at Frankfurt-on-Maine, Germany. “Nothing could have given me greater delight,” he added, “than to hear quite clearly the different voices of all the members of my family, proving that they were in the best of health and enjoying their holiday. Such glorious achievements of technique* for me—not being technically trained—will pro-bdibly belong always to the realm of wonders. I heard this call coming round the whole earth as clearly as a shortdistance connection. In fact I know of many I would have liked to be as good.”