RADIO WINDFALL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 357, 11 February 1937, Page 4

RADIO WINDFALL

: Hospital Funds Benefit From Old Amount. j A radio concert, held in a tent at i a Stratford A. and P. show, in the i days When wireless transmission was non existent has added a sum ot £8 to a novelty and national broadcasting the fund at present being raised to pay for the installation of the most up-to-date receiving apparatus l at the Stratford Hospital. At the A. and P. show some ten years ago people were more than willing to pay for the privilege ot hearing music, played at Hawera, and jnlraculously transmitted through the air to Stratford. The enterprising Stratford Radio Club, which organised the exhibition In collaboration with a private broadcaster in Hawera, collected over £2O for the afternoon. The club retained half the money for its own use. Owing to the rapidity with which radio became more or ness comlmonplace the organisation was l broken up and the balance of funds was left In the hands of two trustees Messrs R. R. Knewtstubb and W. H. Humphrey. These two gentlemen Were to arrange for the money to be spent in erecting an aerial at the Stratford Hospital so that when important broadcasts were on the air a set could be borrowed and the patients enabled to listen. The idea was, however, not attraci live to the hospital authorities at the I time and the money lay- idle and prac- ! tically forgotten until the commenceI ment of the campaign for funds for i the new installation ■ As soon as they became aware ot i this, the trustees took steps to get I into touch with the members' ot the i former radio club. Permission to as- ' sign the money to the hospital radio i fund has now been obained from each ' member and the amount Is accord- | ingly now available for the purpose.