New Guinea
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New Radio Station for Dutch New Guinea
A FIVE-KILOWATT broadcasting station will shortly be opened at Sentani. near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. The station will operate on the 49-metre band on 5090 kc/s and its musical programmes should also provide alternative entertainment for listeners in the remainder of New Guinea and on neighbouring islands.
There is already a low powered Forces Station operating on 7126 kc/s from Hollandia but it does not have a very great coverage. The new station should prove consider ably better in this respect.
Net proceeds from the screening of the Cook Islands’ movie film, “Moana Roa”, which was made at Rarotonga and Aitutaki by the New Zealand National Film Unit several years ago, are being shared between two Cook Islands institutions—the Crippled Children’s Society, and Makea’s Makogai Fund for leper patients.