Radio For Torres Strait
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Missions.
HIGHLY successful tests were made in December with the first of a group of 16 radio stations being in stalled on Torres Strait Islands by Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia), Ltd., for the Queensland Chief Protector of Aborigines.
A.W.A. has fitted radio equipment at 15 Mission stations and posts where Government officials come in contact with the natives, and also on the Gov ernment ketch “Melbidir”. A central station has been provided at Thursday Island, from which the outlying stations are at distances varying up to 400 miles.
Low-powered transmitting equipment, which derives its energy from small en gine driven generators, is used. The trials revealed that one of the new stations can be heard quite clearly at Sydney—a distance of 1,600 miles—on an. ordinary three wave band radio re ceiver.