Radio Transmitters For Torres
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Strait Islands
THE Chief Protector of the Aboriginals * in Queensland has evolved a scheme to provide wireless communication be tween a central radio station on Thurs day Island and a number of the Torres Strait Islands. Fifteen mission stations and Government posts will be equipped almost immediately, as well as the Gov ernment ketch Melhidir.
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. has accepted a contract for the in stallations. As some of the islands in the network are as far as 300 miles from T. 1., it has been decided, in the interests of economy, to equip the stations with low-powered transmitting equipment de riving power from small engine-driven generators.
Miss Olga Macco arrived in Sydney from Rabaul, New Guinea, by the Mon toro on February 18, en route to Germany to be married. Older residents of the territory will remember her parents, who were well-known planters in New Ireland before the Great War.