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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 45, 23 May 1930, Page 5

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[R. T. J. PARKER has been appointed to the board of Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. W. T. Appleton. Mr. Parker is a grandson of the founder of the famous Australian shipping firm of Huddart, Parker, Ltd. He was born in Melbourne in 1888, and educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, and at Dresden (Saxony) and Charterhouse (England). Mr. Parker entered the business of Huddart, Parker in 1906, starting as an office boy, and went through all departments of the shipping business, including the wharf offices and the position of seagoing purser. At various times he had charge of the company’s branch offices at Ballarat, Dunedin, Auckland, and Melbourne. At the present time he is a director and the Sydney manager of Huddart, Parker, Ltd. * * * HE perfunctory manner in which some of the smaller New Zealand stations give their call letters is the subject of a letter received from "AntiCareless" (Masterton). He writes: "T suggest that the announcers should say the word ‘station’ before the call letters, as it affords one notice that the call letters are to be given. At pre- sent they gabble out the call letters as though they are ashamed of them, or in a desperate hurry. There are exceptions, but extremely few."