WHISTLING IN MORSE
CHILD EXPERTS AT PITCAIRN On Pitcairn Island all the children of Adamstown are experts in the Morse code. They signal in it to one another by long and short whistles, and exchange long messages as a pleasant game. This may be because Pitcairn, the radio station of which is listed PITC, was for loing worse off than most places for wireless. It has had a radio station since 1920, and it is now well equipped under the charge of Fletcher Christian and Andrew Young. But formerly Andrew Young's sending apparatus consisted of one storage battery, which had to be sent periodically to New Zealand to be re-charged,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1938, Page 4
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110WHISTLING IN MORSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1938, Page 4
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