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CONTENTS— continued. PAGE PAGE Cable Services .. .. 31 Dunedin Broadcasting Station .. .. 37 The Pacific Cable Act, 1927 : Amendment Armistice Day remembrance celebration : of Constitution and Consolidation of Relaying from New Zealand Broadcastprevious Acts .. .. 31 ing Station .. .. 37 Acceptance of Cable Messages without Pre- Number of Amateur Receiving-stations .. 37 payment: Recovery of Charges from Legislation regarding Wireless Licenses .. 38 Cable Administrations .. .. 31 Unlicensed Wireless Stations : Convictions 38 Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. : Pre- Form of application for Radio license .. 38 paration of Cable Abstracts .. .. 31 Amateur Receiving - stations operated by Damage to Cable of Eastern Extension the Blind .. .. .. 38 Telegraph Co. .. .. 31 Revocation of Wireless License .. .. 38 Cable Rates .. .. .. 32 Radio-dealers' Licenses: Amended ReguWords formed by the Union of a bona fide lations, &c. .. .. 38 Plain Word and a Code-word .. 32 Radio Apparatus for receiving TimeUse of Code Check-word .. .. 32 signals .. .. .. 39 Use of Figures, Numbers, and Commercial Radio Broadcasting Co. of New Zealand, Marks in Cheap-rate Cable Messages .. 32 Ltd. : Telegrams at Press Rates .. 39 Extension of Week-end Letter-telegram Private Broadcasting-stations .. .. 39 Service .-. ■ .. .. 33 Sale of Radio Apparatus .. .. 39 Extension of Daily Letter-telegram Service 33 Elimination of Interference with Broadcast Cable Traffic .. .. .. 33 Reception . . .. .. 39 Wireless Services .. .. 34 Amendments to Telephone Regulations .. 40 Imperial Wireless Services : Standing Com- Prohibition of Use of Telephone for Transmittee .. .. .. 34 mission of Musical Items .. .. 40 New Zealand Coast Stations : Equipment, Misuse of Telephone for False or Bogus Call 40 Operation, &c. .. .. 34 Telephone Directories .. .. 40 White Island : Radio-telegraph Office .. 36 Extension of Automatic Service to Rural Cape Maria Van Diemen Radio Beacon Lines .. .. .. 40 Station .. .. .. 36 Development and Maintenance of Tele-Short-wave Service between New Zealand phone-exchange System .. .. 40 and Samoa.. .. .. 36 Telephone Exchange : Summary of Year's Communication between Coast and Ship Operations .. .. 42 Stations . . .. .. 36 Telephone Statistics .. .. 43 Broadcast of Weather Reports and News Automatic Telephone Exchanges .. 45 Messages .. .. .. 36 Development of Private-line System .. 48 Automatic alarm instruments -on British Private-line System for Taxi-cab Cornships .. .. .. 36 panics .. .. .. 48 Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, Ltd. : Technical Development of Telephone and Control of Wireless Apparatus .. 37 Telegraph Engineering .. . 48 (Interleaved are illustrations of the post-office buildings at Palmerston North, Hastings, and Castlecliff, and of the new railway travelling post-office van, together with graphs indicating departmental revenue and expenditure.)

APPENDIX. PAGE Designation of Offices changed .. .. . . .. .. .. .. 49 Cable Business .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 49 Radio Telegrams .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 (For index to tables see page iii, and for Detailed Index see pages iv-vi.)

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