The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 October 1941Vol. XII, No. 3

Broadcast to French Colonies

p. 63 · Read in the full issue

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:—

Rev. Oliver Furness, of the Methodist Mission in Fiji, is now in Melbourne on furlough.

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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