Looking Backward

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 38, 5 April 1929, Page 8

Looking Backward

"PIPTY years ago I read Edward Bellamy’s "Looking Backward," writes a correspondent from Auckland. ‘The gifted writer describes "Wireless" in which one switched on to his particular church for morning and evening service. Listening to the service from St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church in Hawker Street, Wellington, reminded me of looking backward to the early 80’s of last century when I read that prophecy and I little thought then that it would be my lot to listen ty the Rosary and Benediction at Wellington, Father Robinson’s voice was beautifully clear during the Rosary and myself and family joined in with our brethren in Wellington. The reveption on the whole was excellent, for the wind came in gusts and the rain came down in heavy showers, but 2YA came through clear and steady, for which we express our deepest thanks. "It is a pity that the Roman Catholic Church does not relay more services for the Catholics of the backblocks where there is no church nearer than twenty miles." "Wireless, as Bellamy saw it, will be in every home before the next ten years, and will be a necessity and not a luxury, as it is now. It will take the place of the telephone, and newspapers will be broadcast before the century ends. Instead of a studio for broadcasting news culled from newspapers it will relay Australian, English and New Zealand news like the YA’s broadcast or another now. Newspapers will be a thing of the past and the world’s news and music will be on the air." .