RADIO SPARKLETS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 47, 27 March 1930, Page 12

RADIO SPARKLETS

Talks on musical instruments will be I given shortly from 1YA by Mr Alfred i Eady. * * * Ti A new artist,_ Mrs A. Rattray, mezzo-soprano, will be appearing at 1YA on Saturday, March 29. » * * The programme from 1YA on April 16 will be supplied by the Orphans' Club Orchestra under Mr Harold Baxter. * . * * Some interesting lectures on economics will be given from 1YA in the near future 'by Mr N. Mv Richmond, of the Workers' Education Association. * * Travellers from Chicago to New York by train are now able to listen to radio programmes during the day part of the journey. In Canada radio is Standard equipment on nearly all important trains of the Canadian National Kailways." In connection with the new Chicago-Ndw York service of the Grand Trunk, broadcasts are received by a uniformed operator during the day part of the journey. Headphones are placed ahove each chair in the radio-equippedi parlonr lounge car, the passenger ffferely placing them to his ear to hear a dance tune, the market reports, a svmphony number, or news items, according to the programme on the air at the time.

than 10,000 names, and it was impossible ,the company states, to handle that nnmher in view of the limited amount of time devoted to birthda'ycalls on a daily programmes. . ' * * * Experiments a/re being made in England iir 'fitting taxicabs with wireless receiving sets, not for the entertainment of passengers, but to enable a ■■ whole fleet of cahs to 'be controlled from a central point. Patrolling cahs can be directed to proceed to certain addresses or can b© marshalled at points where an emergeilcv service is demanded. Loud-spe'alcers are used, and the broadcasting is done on a short-wave length.