Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 August 1941Vol. XII, No. 1

Pacific Colonies

p. 59 · Read in the full issue

Page 5959

Broadcast To French

THE Australian Department of Information, in conjunction with the Australian Broadcast ing Commission, makes a daily broadcast in French of news, talks, and music for listeners in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Tahiti.

Transmission is made from Station VLQ, Sydney, on a wave-length of 31.2 metres (frequency, 9.615 mcs.) and consists of the following items:—

Steamships Trading Company’s slipway at Port Moresby, Papua, has been re constructed recently to take vessels up to 500 tons. Previously, only 400-ton ships could be handled.

Aust. Eastern Noumea Standard Time.

Time. 6.25 p.m. 7.25 p.m.

Announcements. 6.30 p.m. 7.30 p.m.

News in French. 6.50 p.m. 7.50 p.m.

Talk In French. 7.25 p.m. 8.25 p.m.

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