TAUGHT BY WIRELESS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 3, 5 August 1927, Unnumbered Page

TAUGHT BY WIRELESS

TREAT FOR COUNTRY CIULDREN, This interesting. announcement was made by Mr. T’. B. Strong, Director of Education, in the course of an address to the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union Conference last week. Mr, Strong devoted special attention to explaining the correspondence method under which the Department met the needs of those children isolated on lighthouses, islands, and far-back farms and settlements. Very good results hare been secured amongst the hundreds of children so situated in the Dominion, It was also found that the system was educating the parents, who, of course, wel2 appealed to by the children for assistance in answering their Pacis, They were hoping to adapt wireless, not only to the teaching of tlis section of the community, but to country schools generally. ‘he intention was te have a weekly lesson Lrowlesst hy wireless to those country scho>:s cquipped with loud speakers. his is a development made possible by the new 2YA Station, Wellington, with its super power, which brings all parts of New Zealand within touch by day or night.