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. Mijm ... 1 Tlie Australian Inlapd Mission piaced an up-to-date transmitting and receiving set at Birdsville, a lonely station in Western Queenslfind, last August, and it is proving most useful. Tbe mission has a mother wireless station at Cloneurry, the base of the "flying doctor," or aerial medical service. The scheme is to place "baby" wireless sets in lonely places, where there are no other means of communication by wire, so that settlers may secure the service of tlie doctor in case of accident or in an emergency. The following is an extrat from a letter received from one of the sisters at the mission nursing home at Birdsville, which is 250 miles from the nearest telegraph station at Boulia, Queensland : — "T trahsmitted a telegram of 85 words to-dav to Cloneurry, My collcague d!d tlie 'hiking' (generated tlie spark hv means of treadles) while T dicl tlie coding. The transmission took ahoub 15 rainutes. We have sent 34 simi'ar telegrams sinre the installat.ion. From this you will he able to iudge wliat a lot of gnorl the transmitting and receiving set is doing for Birdsville and distrirt."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 244, 15 November 1929, Page 4
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188BACKBLOCKS WIRELESS Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 244, 15 November 1929, Page 4
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