Radio For Aborigines.

Radio Record, 3 June 1938, Page 42

Radio For Aborigines.

SOME of the mission stations and pests in North Queensland, where Government officials come into contact with the aborigines, are hundreds of miles distant from any town, and one of the chief disabilities experienced by the white workers at such places has been the complete isolation, often extending over months at a time. That isolation has now been broken by means of a system of wireless communication. Six months ago Amalgamated. Wireless was instructed by the Queensland Chief Protector of Aborigines to provide fifteen radio stations at as many mission outposts, and one on the Government ketch "Metbidir," which operates in North Queensland waters and maintains contact with the missioners. The scheme included a central station at Thursday Island. The work has just been completed and A.W.A. are advised the whole system is giving very satisfactory results, bringing lone officials, who formerly were weeks away from civilisation, within actual speaking range.