To Popularise Radio

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 37, 28 March 1929, Page 7

To Popularise Radio

A STRIKING competition, designed to impress upon country people the value of radio to rural interests, is -announced by the "New Zealand Dairy Produce Exporter," a monthly journal with the impressive circulation of 60,000 copies per month to ail dairy farmers throughout the Dominion. The competition awards prizes totalling £50, the first being an order for £25, to be spent in the purchase of radio apparatus. The second prize is £10, and there are a number of third and fourth prizes. The competition is a tax upon the iterary skill of competitors and is. deayened to amuse readers and encourage yaterest in radio as an essential amenity of country life. Competitors are required to write a lon» sentence or series of sentences having some general reference to radio and rural interests, using words beginning with the initial letter "R." The use of certain supplementary words is permitted. An entry fee of 1s. postal note is imposed, and it is anticipated that entries will be very heavy. A copy of the "Dairy Exporter," giving details, will be sent on receipt of sixpence in stamps by the publishers, P.O. Box 1001, Wellington,