Radio Communications In
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The Pacific
PARALLEL with the development of the Pacific Territories has been the prodigious growth of the radio communications network in the Islands. To-day, after little more than a decade of pioneering work, Amalgamated Wire less (A/sia), Ltd., has linked practically every major group in the South Seas and many of the minor islands.
The difficult work of maintaining contact with the outside world in war-time is one of the unsung stories of the Pacific and the full account of what is being done cannot, of course, be told at this stage.
Addressing the 33rd annual general meeting in Sydney on November 17, AWA’s chairman of directors, Sir Ernest Fisk (wireless pioneer in Australasia), told shareholders that 1940-41 profit had been £133,089, with a £66,528 increase in revenue. Dividend was the usual 10 per cent.
He emphasised that the Co. had placed all its production resources at the service of the Commonwealth Government and that 80 per cent, of its output—radios, valves (important munitions of war) and other highly-technical equipment—is for defence purposes.
Mrs. Colin Marr arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the November steamer.
She will reside in Australia while her husband, Lieut. C. G. Marr, formerly an inspector and instructor in the NG De partment of Agriculture, is abroad with the AIF.
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Hammer, mission aries of the Church of Christ in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney on furlough in November.
Mr. Aubrey Eric Simpson, 44, manager of Sangara Rubber Plantations, Ltd., Papua, was found dead at his home in Norwood, near Adelaide (South Austra lia), on November 18. A double-barrelled shot-gun was lying nearby The coroner returned a verdict of suicide.