"Kukuburru Farm"

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 43, 6 May 1932, Page 4

"Kukuburru Farm"

American Listener’s Compliment NEAT compliment has been paid to Australia and Australian broadcasting by a resident of Ghent, New York, who has named his poultry farm "Kukuburru: Farm." This is a result of his listening to the world broadcasts of shortwave station 2M. Sydney, the programmes from which station are always commenced and concluded with the laugh of the kookaburra. In a letter to the station inanage-

ment, Mr. George A. Laird writes :-~ "While perhaps ‘Kukuburrw’ is not properly spelt, we believe that we enjoy the distinction of having the only ‘Kukuburru Farm’ in the U.S.A, Not that we raise that kind of bird, however." He explains that his business is the production of eggs and poultry and he adds: "We certainly get a kick out of your programmes and as all our neighbours wonder what kind of an animal the kukuburru is, your reference to the land of the kangaroo and, the kukuburru makes a hit," i Mr. Laird concluded with a request to the station to send him a picture of a kookaburra. Some of the neighhours imagine that a laughing jackass is a quadruped and he wishes to paint a kookaburra on the side of his: barn.