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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 215, 11 October 1929, Page 4

The B.B.C's efforts to eduoate the 1 pubjic through Utalks" draw many p'fotests. from* the public which wauts aihuscment,/ not ' ihstfaction. The foilowing Verses in. a Sc'ottish paper are typical : — To several million homes each night,: The B.B.C. dispenses light,' In dhats on Art. the Arquebus, Or "How to eat asparagus," Or "Ways to l-enovate a hat", And interesting things like that, To teil us what to do or use. When in. the pink or in the blues, We learn what littery mulches are, J The distance too the fa-rthest star ; ! And ere Big Ben booms out bis 1 chimes, 1 We're urged to buy the Radio Times , But wouldn't it be rather nice 1 If there could be a small aevjce 1 Whereby the '.'Talker"- (all aione), 1 Ensconsed before the microphone, 1 Might see a coloured light— say, red 1 When I switch off and go to bed. •* * ' * Sir Douglas Mawson's ship, the Dis1 covery, now ' en route froni England preparatory to conveying a ' further body of -Polar esnlorers southward, is well ' equipped with radio apparatus, though, unlike the vessels-of the Byrd expedition, she carries no special applianees for telephony communication:: Eor ship to shore work a l|kw. Mai'coni transmitter of the latest type is 1 installed, while a short-wave telegraphy sending and receiving set has 1 heen providing for continuous romrau1 nication ivith Australia and Britain. 1 The Motv a'eroplnne w-hich forms pnrt. 1 nf the expeditinn's equipment is 'also ' fitted with the latest in radio devices.