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nowroom nar
airs used for-

er

do the pseudo-Jacobean c »sk in the study is

chairs are very \

merly. In public lounges, too, steel would c
obviously be the ideal solution of many cing atrotig Tight and e

problems, but here, as in many other cases ea - k when one wants to rise <
the price is against it. Strong, wooden ‘  aled used: Se ceeiae ‘

a built-in side-
>a set of s
th a top of plate
quer on a steel
1ing in the same
the same time practical and

chairs can still be bought a lot cheaper
than steel chairs. But manufacturers and
firms are working hard to find some way
of making them more cheaply, and when
this problem is solved there will be a huge

t-proof

he whole

extra market for them, and many semi- .
: te places sae oem to look less dreary as domestic work is concerned, it
and more sparkling. seems to be the super-shiny finish on steel

that

s certain people against it. We
lo ing it finished in satin-
FS ia : sil ew finish for metals that is very

7 soft in texture

Wood or Steel

When we come to the home, tho
spite of the fact that Continental de

HOBART GIRL HOLDS DISTINCTIVE HONOUR

temcereeee: First Woman Amateur Radio Operator In State Nes

gn

s done a lot of with the transmitting car asethe quarry.

24 m her own:

belongs School clas: s down to 40 to 20 metres. Naturally because it is
: ee = f modestly at the gets hold of you, and
ingly upon f proud __ distinction of | } agp aE
tie being the first and only woman and pro on BEY

ou start Of course,
, but it is worth it.”
game for shoc
“Tam afraid I

I ‘got across’ 600

and it nearly threw me out «

amateur radio operator in Tas- as Ais

mania. Though not yet 20 whic
years of age, she has her repairs.
own station, 7YL, and al- Inventive Schoo! Tez
though she has had her licence yy ay). there are only

for transmitting only four amateurs in Australia.

ent

ts one da}
of the shack!”

vitches,

2s and Ar

valves ar rs’ En
urs En
r sexy. anxious to go a step fu a tabl ar tains and cases : Ky see
months she has already achiev poaition in oné-of the comr ne n the touch of the . Miss Crowder recounted some interest-

announcer, operator ing conversations she has had with ama-

ed no small measure of success. as a radio engineer but t

t the woman She is n e
. ; pie : : - ; uate at : ns sy countr Recently, she
7; ment is impossible, r she is a tes and radio mechanic all {into one, and teurs in other countri wie Yo.

She has been in touch with other ment is impossible, for she is a teac a i was thrilled to hear from an American

orse code, for t U
t be qualified amateur, who explained how four amateur
» in Morse. Stations had provided an emergency link
to bring help to sufferers, following the
bursting of a dam in the recent floods in
that cc when all other communica-
tions iped out.

owder

- : . in the State Education Department,
amateurs In America, Switzer- has three years of a four-year cont

land, Japan and England, as complete. At present she is stationed
numerous ZO )s) Bas cards (ex- Sorell State school, and, as she is at

F come home only at the w
change cards), which decorate not get a great ¢

the walls of her radio “‘shack’’ grossing hol
testify. iss C

thea

he only girl

been some-

amenced the broad-
c this week for the

cor

generous in

st with records con-
ted merely

— inte knowle nt of » given to h . regulations she is
M* CROWDER has always been other amateurs and wireless entht of regres :

it all. She
“field days.”
aring the

greatly interested in v

oe the fun of
a visit to Mr. J. Batchelor’s i

ons a car

eless, and “The boys of the Wireless I
ateur sta- declared warmly to a repres«
tion, 7JB, at the beginning o r “We Realm,” “1
first put the idea into her head of qualify- good to me and helpe
ing for a transmitting licence. She there- If I req in t

took a 12 months’ course at the an aerial erected and so forth, they set
echnical School, going three nights to work and lend a hand. I just send out

A portrait of Miss Crowder in
her wireless shack appears on
the front page.

lire anything done

Later, cars manned by other a

receiving sets follow the same direction,

Weekly. At the conclusion of the course an S.O.S.” and & novel game of hide and seek ensues,
B "E 7 tt ”
ERE is an idea for the business gir! Se ANT ROTTEN apr PS ws : ] on top. Next, of course, came mattress
living in town who wishes to furnish a [T is possible to accomplish much out of little if the idea is and bedclothes, and covered all with an im
bed-sitting-room on a minimum outlay. The there and the will to put it into effect, In this, the second | expensive material in shaded colourings of

room in w. 's bei ‘ : : brown and ; this was thrown across,
room in which one has one's being should } yarticle of a series telling what can be made for “next to | rrr eee ee eee of the ottoman.