Hospital Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 October 1929, Page 7

Hospital Radio

ee A Novel Broadcast . aA UNIQUE broadcast was performed by 2YA, Wellington, on September 25, when Mr. H, G.- Dickie, ,M.P. for Patea. and the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, Minister of Health, made brief addresses from the studio in connection with the formal operation of the broadcast-receiving installation recently donated to the Hawera Public Hospital. The broadeast was clearly received. The installation comprises 85 pillow , phones, which enable patients to hear clearly from the receiving units inside their pillows, two loudspeakers in the children’s ward, and two more in the nurses’ home. The set is a six-valve all-electric one, with an additional power amplifier and a gramophone pick-up installation. Another interesting ceremony was performed at the Old People’s Home at Park Island, Hawke's Bay, on September 22, when the oldest inmate of the home, a Crimean Wa: veteran, tuned in to 2YA on a latest. model screen-grid receiver. Those present then listened to a concert being transmitted from New York for the especial benetit of the Byrd Expedition, and which was being rebroadcast from Wellington. The idea of installing radio in institutions of this déscription is an ex- ecHent one, and the inmates, from all reports. seem highly appreciative of any efforts made in this direction.