AN IMPERIAL NEED.

Wairarapa Age, 4 February 1927, Page 6

AN IMPERIAL NEED.

BROADCASTING PROM BRITAIN “MOTHER ENGLAND SILENT.” LONDON, February 2. The “Daily Express” draws attention in a front page feature story to the lamentable absence of a powerful British broadcasting stations giving the Dominions news of the happenings in the Mother Country. “Why is it not possible?” it asks, “for Australia, for example, to hear the King and NEr. Baldwin speak. The much-heralded Davcntry Station exhausts its power in Europe. It is absurd to think of the Australians reaching out into the world and capable of picking up Russia and America, while Mother England is silent. It is easily possible to increase Davcntry ’s power, and then relay it through Australian stations.” The “Express” devotes an editorial to the subject.' “It is bad enough to see Australia and Africa over-run by American motor cars and pictures. By intensive methods the Americans succeed in beating us there, but interEmpire communication is infinitely of greater importance and simply must not fall into foreign hands.”—(A. and N.Z.).