An Epoch-Making Event

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 53, 19 July 1929, Page 16

An Epoch-Making Event

HE Radio Exhibition, the plans of which are now rapidly being drawn to finality, promises to be the most outstanding event. in New Zealand radio history. Nothing of its kind has ever been attempted before, but success seems assured from every aspect. With the whole-hearted co-opera- ° tion of the trade, the Post and Telegraph Department, the Wellington Amateur Radio Society, the Broadcasting Company, and the Amateur ‘Transmitters’ Association, it is difficult to picture anything but an outstanding success, The idea of the exhibition has been to let the public see the very latest apparatus that is obtainable. We feel certain that there are a very large number who are withholding from purchasing for fear that they will later on see something they. like better, The Exhibition has been planned so that within half an hour or so a prospective listener can see all that the trade is offering. It is extremely doubtful that the form of the exhibits will be materially changed for some considerable time. Radio appears well stabilized, and radical changes are not pre-eminent. o On this and the following page the activities of bodies other than: the trade have been outlined, and our readers’ attention is directed to them. "We: regret that at this date, we have been unable to.detail the plans of-the Post and Telegraph Department, but visitors are assured that something really worth while is coming from that quarter... ,