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do the pseudo-Jacobean ch < for-

merly. In public lounges, too, steel would

obviously be the ideal solution of r
problems, but here, as in many other case
the price is against it. Strong, wooden
chairs can still be bought a lot ches
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
extra market for them, and many semi
public places will begin to look less dreary
and mere sparkling.

Wood or Steel

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

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air for the desk in the study is :
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The chairs are very \
n, strong, light, and
en one wants to rise
> alsé used in dining-
a built-in side-
a set of steel
1a top of plate
acquer on a steel
ole thing in the same
me practical and

tic work is concerned, it
per-shiny finish on steel
artain people against it. We
ard to seeing it finished in satin-
ew finish for metals that is very
xture :

HOBART GIRL HOLDS DISTINCTIVE HONOUR

eosseseeennotent First Woman Amateur Radio Operator In State

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O..Miss.Joyce.Crowder,»!2s December she sat for the fi i f usiast bas done.a lot of with the transmi

t ) Day road, of proficiency Miss Cro er was the on he | e mos E Ss, she {
Hobart. ‘belongs the girl in the _ Technical | School clas: is down to 40 to 20 metres. Naturally she Miss’ Crowder stated, % ost
proud asenchan oF . — s also sat for the final exami Z began modestly fi but the need of a interesting. t gets h ‘you, and —

ivities soon be- the fasci

off, like it
You simply
Of course,
ut it is worth it.”

being the first and only woman and proficiency
amateur radio operator in Tas- 0”! A serenade
mania. Though not yet 20 1
years of age, she has_ her
own station, /YL, and al- {nyenti
though she has had her licence 1, Sires
for transmitting only four amateurs in Austr S
months she has already achiev- #?*ious to go a step fur
position in one of the commer
ed no small measure of success. ae a radio-engineer but-+
She has been in touch with other ment a ene, ee
* < : the State E sation “;
amateurs in America, Switzer- jhe fire scans cation Der
land, Japan and England, as complete. At present she
numerous gC Je} Big cards (ex- Sorell State school, and
; come home only at the
change cards), which decorate ¢?) get Sproat deal of
the walls of her radio “‘shack’’ grossi
testify.
ISS CROWDER has alway:
greatly interested in wirel
a visit to Mr. J. Batchelor’
tion, 7JB, at the beginnin
first put the idea into her he d Bs : 2
ing for a transmitting licence. > there- If juire anything done in the ular township. A nia of Mies Cromden, =
pon took a 12 months’ course at the an aerial erected and so forth, they set_ Later, cars manned by other amateurs with her bebe ack appears on
echnical School, going three nights to work and lend a hand. I just send out receiving sets follow the same direction, the front page.
weekly. At the conclusion of the course an S.O.S.” and a novel game of hide and seek ensues,

HOW TO FURNISH A DEN ON SMALL OUTLAY

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y, and it nearly threw me out

nateurs gency Aid
itz and comes : pe Sette? | ‘
oken the touch of the Miss Crowder recounted some interest-
hand. She is announcer, operator ing conversations she has had with ama-
radio mechanic all rolled into one, and teurs in other countries. Recently, she
orse code, for Was thrilled to hear from an American
t be qualified amateur, who explained how four amateur
1ute in Morse. Stations had provided an emergency link
to bring help to sufferers, following the
bursting of a dam in the recent floods in
when all other communica-

ble, for she

tationed at
S she is able to
ond she d

s been the only girl

been some-

x hobb

nenced the broad-
c this week for the
the regulations she is
ved to broadcast with records con-
1eir use being restricted merely _

owder

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x purposes.

ERE is an idea for the business girl T: ° " . he cA ee ~ | on top. Next, of course, came mattress

living in town who wishes to furnish a I lis possible to accomplish much out of little if the idea is and bedclothes, and covered all with an in-

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
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i i 7 i ; : : ; P “ mg ‘ ; 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 brown and orange; tat ‘ene
breathe the individuality of its present ‘ : 8 15 - but not hiding the little legs of the ottoman.

owner; 8 companionable room goes a long nothing” the furnishing of a business girl's bed-sitting room | At the hiead-end, cushions were piled—
way towards mental health and that means den is described. orange, brown, and jade green.
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