STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 4

STOP PRESS NEWS

VOICE OF BRITAIN SENT ROUND THE WORLD WORK OF BROADCASTING LONDON, July 20 Mr* Ogilive, Director-Ganera! cf the British Broadcasting Corporation, said: “For the moment every wireless station along the western seaboard of Europe, from the Arctic Circle to the Pyren nees, is in enemy hands, and for the moment almost every voice from those stations, whatever language it may happen to me in, is the voice of the enemy. It is simply Hitler calling. As one by one the torch of the radio was dashed from the hands cf our Allies we mads it our business to kindle it for them again at once, and hold it high here in Britain. We began the war broadcasting in nine languages other than English. We are now broadcasting in 24 languages and have three main services for listeners overseas, two on short-wave running almost right round the clock and one European service on short and medium waves, running nineteen hours. Things are always on the move. Last montn, for example, we considerably enlarged ©ur service to North and South America. If you happen to look in at our studios any mgnt, or rather morning about 2 or 3 a.m., you would find well-known speakers, very wide awake, doing their bit for the country, sending the voice of Britain and the arts and gaiety of Britain to listeners all the world over. 1 ’ ACCIDENTAL DEATH CAR SMASH AT OTOROHANGA A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner, Mr F. W. Platts, today at the inquest into the death of Stuart Ward, aged 24 years, single, of Te Kuiti, who was killed as a result of a collision between the car he was driving and a car containing Air Force trainees returning to New Plymouth. The Coroner stated that according to the evidence the pilot driving the car proceeding south mistook new earthworks and proceeded straight ahead, instead of turning the corner, just as the other car reached the corner. It was a pure accident. “TOO MANY DEATHS" YOUNG MAORI CHILDREN “There are far too many deaths among young Maori children, mostly because of carelessness,” said the Coroner, Mr F. W. Platts, at tho inquest today on a Maori boy, Kotene Rangi, aged 10 months. “In this case, although the cause of death will not bo known until after tha post mortem examination, the evidence shows that tho parents took the child for a 40mile motor drive on Saturday to attend a wedding and returned on Sunday, .he bey dying at 2.25 on Monday morning. It was very wrong and selfish of them to take the child, as It must have been ill. Natives should remember thero is a native nurso for their benefit and they should call her in when thoir children are sick.” The inquest v/as adjourned.