Polynesian As Radio
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Engineer
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Feb. 20.
THE officer in charge at the Rarotonga Radio Station reports that loba Marsters, a 16-years-old native youth who is being trained as a wireless operator, constructed out of sundry spare parts a four-valve receiving set.
A compact, robust receiver, it has per formed under tests very efficiently on high frequency, the broadcast band and on 500 kilocycles.
The standard of workmanship is quite high and probably of greater merit is the fact that the design and layout were his own ideas; while the circuit, which was of his selection, had to be modified to suit the material available.
This appears to be the first occasion on which a Cook Islands native has suc cessfully attempted the construction of a radio receiving set of this calibre.
Mr. Joseph Chute, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Chute, of Nakula, Vanua Levu, Fiji, married Miss Nancy Abel at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, on February 10.