[?]uva Calling . . .
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»ung lady ringing; up the grocer? No, ig lady sneaking to Suva from >OO s away and saying: “ZQGB Naitauba ng; ZQGB Naitauba calling. Are you lying me, Miss Swan? Are you recciv me? Over.” ie young lady is Miss Liz Hennings: is keeping her daily 10.45 a.m. sked Suva by radio-telephone, the small ument no larger than a table radio has taken the distance and the tion out of living in the remoter s of Fiji. Not only can you speak to Swan (or one of the other radio nothcrs who look after a special P of charges) and receive and send >s, but you can be connected to any hone number in Suva and so add minute items to your grocery order, net business, make a social call or seek medical advice. Apart from the that one roust operate a “Listen”
“Speak” knob on the set, and tuate one’s conversation with the lation “Overs”, the whole thing is as ent as an ordinary land telephone ce and a great deal more efficient considerably less frustrating and in ting than Suva’s present service.