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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 46, 31 May 1929, Page 3

ee N Saturday evening 1YA relayed a portion of the Auckland University students’ extravaganza, "The King of Kawau." Both songs and dialogue came over splendidly, and listeners will look forward to the further relay promise for next Friday evening. IN Friday last the writer took a casual stroll round the premises 0. several radio dealers, simply for the purposes of quiet observation. Of dealers there are not so many as existed in the days when inexperienced people thought that tere were fortnnes be mad bv the -ere retailing of wireless sets 1 accessories. The trade has now settled down to normal proportions for the existing demand, which, by the way, is quite a healthy one at this time. The ‘emand for electric sets is universal, and every dealer was featuring some dependable type, and finding his customers well satisfied with it. Those who are. left with large stocks of battery-operated sets on their hands may find considerable difficulty in disposing of them to town customers, but there are always settlers isolated from power lines who must perforce have recourse to the older types. Launch owners, too, prefer sets which they can transport from home to cruiser, and thence, perhaps, to seaside shack,