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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 August 1946Vol. XVII, No. 1

Territories' Radiophone : Useful

p. 10 · Read in the full issue

and Cheap, But No Privacy

WHO is paying for this internal radio communication system that the Administration is trying to estab lish throughout the Territories? It must be very costly.

No charge is made for the traffic. The traffic is handled by radiophone, and anyone with a receiver can listen in.

There is no orivaev. One listens for one’s name to be called, and can hear the messages for other people.

A lady in Australia, the other day, ad vised her husband in New Guinea of the arrival of a new baby. The intimation was quite businesslike. Most of us are still anxious to know whether it was a boy or a girl. —Special Correspondent.