The Value Of Teleradio
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‘7T\HE teleradio is proying of inestimable X value to us in the Northern Terri tory”, said Mr. T. A. Holt, owner of Roper Valley Station, recently.
“In the past, with a six-weekly mail service, twelve weeks elapsed between the writing of a letter and receipt of a reply; now the interval is only hours.
Formerly, we used to start a mob of cattle towards the coast for sale, head ing either for the Queensland border or Alice Springs. Our drover, in all prob ability, would meet a buyer on the road.
He would wire us the price offered, but the wire was quite likely to remain at the Post Office for weeks. Now it goes to Darwin and thence through to us by radio, on our teleradio set.”
One of Mr. Holt’s men was badly in jured. He called up Darwin at 7.15 a.m.; and, at 10 o’clock, Dr. Fenton arrived by ’plane. This was a vivid contrast to an occasion in pre-teleradio days, when Mr.
Holt took an injured aboriginal to hos pital, spending 15 hours by car in cover ing 90 miles, over an almost non-existent road. Once, when both the flying doctor’s planes were out of action, they kept a sick piccaninny alive for five days and saved his life, by following the instructions of the chief medical officer at Darwin, as conveyed several times daily by tele radio.
Rev. W. K. Deasey, chaplain at Nor folk Island, has been appointed to Cab ramatta, N.S.W. His place wifi be filled by Rev. H. H. Davison, formerly curate at Port Kembla, N.S.W.