Radio "Out Back"
AY out back at a railhead near the centre of Australia, where mails and newspapers only arrived at very long intervals, the men have no way of knowing the starters in racing events, except by wireless. Previous to the last Melbourne Cup 2a couple of hundred men could be seen gathered round a loudspeaker-most of them with pencil and paper, taking down the names of the starters. One of their number showed enterprise by openingf a book, and the odds were laid and taken with just as much gusto as on the racecourse. And when the big race was run the great desert railway construction came to a halt whilst 8LO and allied stations belched out into the ether a running description of the Melbourne Cup. -_-_
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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 34, 8 March 1929, Page 15
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129Radio "Out Back" Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 34, 8 March 1929, Page 15
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