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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1954Vol. XXV, No. 3

New Frequency

p. 163 · Read in the full issue

Rarotonga Broadcasts on New Frequency

IN continuation of its test broad casts, Rarotonga shifted to 5995 kc’s in the 49 metre band on September 15. The weekly general interest broadcast is still taking the air at the same time —6 p.m., Wed nesdays, Rarotonga time. (Thursday, 0430 GMT). Tests have now been made successively on 3390, 5050 and 6180 kc/s as well as the present channel.

If Mr. Niel McGowan and Miss Nora Urquhart were married in Brisbane on October 2. The couple will live in Fiji, where Mr. McGowan is a plant pathologist.