Broadcast of Copra Prices
pp. 19-20 · Read in the full issue
TTHROUGH the courtesy and enterprise of Amalgamated Wireless (A’sia) Limited, planters in the South Seas are now able to learn very expeditiously each week the current London quotations for copra.
Islands produce prices are regularly broadcast from Sydney as the first item in the news bulletin from A.W.A.’s world range short-wave station VK2ME each Sunday at 9 p.m., and Monday at 1.30 a.m. (Sydney time). Operating on a 31.28 wave length (9590 kilocycles), VK2ME transmits a special programme on Sun days between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. (0600- 0800 G.M.T.) and 8 p.m. and midnight (1000-1400 G.M.T.); and on Mondays be tween midnight and 2 a.m. (1400-1600
G.M.T.).
Mr. John Young, of Norfolk Island, married Miss Dawn Smith, of Lord Howe Island, at St. Barnabas’ Chapel, N. 1., on November 22.
Mr. Jack Sherry, of Burns, Philp & Co.
Ltd., Rabaul, New Guinea, has been transferred to B.P.’s Samarai branch in Papua.