News for London
Radio Telephone Talk TREMENDOUS increase in the number of calls made through the trans-Tasman short-wave radio. telephone service has been reported as the result of the tremendous upheayal in | Hawke’s Bay. On February 6, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Mr. G. W. Forbes, conversed by radio telephone over a distance of 12,000 miles with Sir Thomas Wilford, ‘New Zealand’s High Commissioner in London. ‘The Prime Minister stated it was still impossible to give any definite figure of the killed and injured in the earthquake, but in view of the . anxiety which Sir Thomas Wilford explained was felt by New Zealanders in England, the Prime Minister said an effort would be made to send a casualty list the following morning.
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 31, 13 February 1931, Page 4
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121News for London Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 31, 13 February 1931, Page 4
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