Radio Listeners.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 4

Radio Listeners.

New Zealand still maintains its position as third in the list of countries where radio licences are issued in respect of the density of licences to population, states the annual report of the National Broadcasting Services. The percentages of the five countries having the greatest density are as follow: —Denmark 20.58; Sweden 19.47; New Zealand 19.43: -Great Britain 19.30: Australia 16.05. Timber for Fencing Posts. One of the difficulties faced by the Native Department in its development of Maori lands in South Auckland has been a scarcity of suitable timber for fencing posts. So bad was the situation last year that in three areas the department started the construction of concrete posts. One of the obvious objections to this procedure was the heaviness of such posts for transport. However, the department has now opened up a red birch forest in Ohakune, from which it will be able to draw timber for all fencing requirements. Gift to Waimate Library. A recent gift to the Waimate Public Library is a book of sketches and verse, the work of the giver. Mr F. H. Woods, of Morven. This unusual manuscript is a book containing between 40 and 50 contributions of verse and a similar number of sketches. The work, which occupied Mr Woods’s leisure hours for about a year, is well done. Half the sketches are views of parts of ' the Waimate district and the remainder are of other parts of New Zealand. A large number are copies of photographs. others are from real life, and there are one or two done from memory of places in the district in the early days. The Ukranian steppes pruvide onefourth of the Soviet Union’s cereal crop.