First the Set—Then TV (Maybe)

A Suva firm. Fiji Trading Co. Ltd., last month became the first outh Pacific Islands firm to import and exhibit a television set 1 Xt The U set W caused much interest in Suva with crwds of people lilling around the window. Manager Tom Fr f n^^ sa l^ r t ef„fj nn o oped to experiment with reception from Australian TV s ith a high aerial. (It will have to be mighty high, we feel).

If images from Sydney and Melbourne are received i the Colony, the sale of television sets may V et a usiness here, as it did when TV was mfrodwccd m£o Am ear or so ago. Sets would retail in Suva for ar°und £ 5 1 * With the clip-clop and bang-bang dm of es^^ n^ e^ ar s^ e l i nging in his ears, a Suva-ite just returned from lat the TV set on show represented the best type he d ever seen t as unconnected!