Broadcast Of Copra Prices
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SOUTH SEAS produce prices (including copra) are broadcast weekly from Sydney in the news bulletin from A.W.A.’s world range short wave station VK2ME each Sunday at 9 p.m., and Monday at 1.45 a.m. (Sydney time). Oper ating on a 31.28 wave length (9,590 kilocycles), VK2ME will transmit programmes in September on Sundays between 3.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. (0530-0730 G.M.T.), and 7.30 p.m. and 11.30 p.m (0930-1330 G.M.T.); and on Mondays between 12.30 a.m. and 2.30 a.m. (1430-1630 G.M.T,).
Mr. Eric Archibald, a miner in the Wewak District, Northern New Guinea, died on July 17 from the effects of black water fever. He went to New Guinea four years ago, sailing up from Australia in the schooner “Gunenbah”.