Inefficient Radio
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Rabaul, Jan. 8.
rE Tele-radio at Sohana —an import ant Bougainville business centre —is again out of action. It has been so for a fortnight.
No one seems to be able to do anything about it. It is time the Administration ceased interfering with inter-island radio communication, if they cannot obtain competent men to conduct the business.
It should be realised that the safety of ships at sea and the lives of the people
throughout these Islands, in cases of emergency are dependent on an efficient radio system.
Despite assurances to the contrary, telephonic communication between Rabaul and Kokopo seems to be as far off as ever. Someone gets an occasional spasm, and work is resumed on the line for a week or two. Then a halt is called and, between this halt and the next resump tion of work, the poles fall down and the lines get into such a tangle that by the time this is unravelled another halt is due.