NEPHEWS IN FIJI

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 6, 24 August 1928, Page 30

NEPHEWS IN FIJI

Seg See ea WHOLE SCHOOL JOINS 2YA RADIO FAMILY cae eee MB. D. SAUNDERS, headmaster of Provincial School, Eastern Londoni, Fiji, writes the following interesting letter to 2YA :- "You will be surprised tu hear that you have 100 new nephews at a Fijian boys’ boarding school in the backblocks of Fiji. From the proceeds of a recent bazaar we had here we have invyested in an eight-valve super-hetro-dyne set. The first night we listenedin the first thing we picked up was YA children’s hour, which the boys enjoyed thoroughly. The reception was quite good, although the st. tion is inclined to fade away a little at times, but at no time were we unable to hear it. We picked up the riddle, ‘We all make his praise,’ and the boys send the following — solution: ‘William Shakespeare," as the celebrated Englishman, — "Being a New Zealand teacher serving a term in Fiji, I am naturally interested in tuning-in New Zealand stations, and we hope that on next Monday week when we listen-in we shall hear a few words from you for our benefit. I have a little daughter, Hileen,. who is a keen listener to bedtime stories, and I am sure she would be delighted to hear her name mentioned over the air. It would come as a great surprise to her. The Fijian boys, too, are hard to convince that the stories come from so far away. Perhaps if you had time ‘to say a few words it would be most convincing to them."