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SCALLOP BEDS|
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Premier’s Recorded Speech Declares Prospects For Seq;qn— :
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_The offieial opening of THT, licensed A report of an examination of the
broadcasting station controlled by Met- scallop beds in the upper section of
———rdpolitan—Broadcasters —Limited, took
. K(hee at the studio in Cleburne building,
—WIRELESS -FACTS— D'Entrecasteaux Channel wasreceived
at a meeting of the Sea Fisheries Board
urray St., Hobart, last night. ' The Thereport . in-
,000 Licences Within
_at-Hobart-yesterday
new station was declared openbythe dicated that there were large quanti-
——Preémier (Mr. A. 4. Ogllvie, K.C.), who, ties of marketable scallops in the areas
speech, congratulated
in a recorded
those responsible for its establishment. - 50 Miles of Hobart | tested, and the Chairman (Col. J. E. C.
Lord) expressed the opinfon that the
Among the guests who gathered in prospects for the approaching season
the studio were the Lord Mayor and
. Lady Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs..J. J. Wi THIN :
80 miles of Hobart,
there are now more than
were bright.
_ Wignall), the Deruty-Director of Posts The report was supplementary to a
and Telegraphs (Mr. J. ‘E. Monfries),
16,000 wireless licence holders, previous report furnished to the Board
representing receivers-in no concerning an examination of the beds
the Director of Programmes at Natlon- < fewer than 62 out of every,100 in the lower section of the Channel. The
- al station 7ZL Hobart (Mr. E. J. Mec- dwellings, which means that report yesterday, which was made by
..-Cann), the Managing Editor of ‘“The Sergt. T, Challenger, Fisheries Inspec-
;;e!ercury" (Mr. &' Usher), and the 7':‘,?:::{‘,;' .v:,'; hfi::dh..ldw?:: tor,-stated that thé bedsexamined on
R *Ianaging— Director — of ~Commercial—H——Znaverage ofnearly four and a
(M. S. H. || palf persons to each dw
the western shore extended from Wood-
Broadcasters® Pty. Ltd. brid? to the Pilot Station, embracing
_Findlay). of congratulation
A message Hobart stations have an ud?- North-West Bay, while the tests on the
, was recelved from- the Portmaster- | ence of more than 70,000 per- eastern shore were from the southern
General (Senator McLachlan). . The sons. These facts were given side of Barnes Bay nearly to Denne's
Manager of, THT (Mr. R. C. Thomas) by the Deputy-Director of !Polut. Altogether 66 hauls were made
. Was master of ceremonlie:. Posts and Telegraphs (Mr'. in various places resulting in the find-
The Premler, in his recorded speech, J. E. Monfries) at the officia ing of marketable scallops in consider-
congratulated those responsible for the opening of the new broadcast- able quantity. While fine conditioned
- establishment of the station, and said ing station, 7HT, at Hobart, commercial (flats) and doughboys were
the Government had not hesitated to last night. “It is being recog- in general found mixed on most of the
-:.-use the radlo for reaching the people ised more an ore what an beds, there was found on others a pre-
- of Tasmanla, not only to present its enormous influénceis exercised ponderance of small, to just regulation
by broadcasting stations,” said undersized, commercial scallops. So
... views on current political affalrs, but
= also ~to make fimportant announce-— —.the DeputyDirector, “and it is that those growing scallops .might be
ments, i zrafi{ylng to my department to left alone, it was recommended that the
now that this great field of in- matter. of size of scallops brought in bs
“We live in an age, the commonplace terest is realised by those who closely watched hy the Board’s officers,
activities of which .would have been are prepared to undertake the to give the young shellfish opportunity
regarded as miracles half a generation responsibilities in connection to develop fully.
ago,” the Premler continued. “In the with the control of stations.”
field of education, music, and world __Thereport was received,
-affairs, and in the sphere of social pro-
"EGYPT OUTTO GET Attempt
blema and literary achlevement, the
radlo has attained an Important place not only give additional employment,
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- TOURISTS
in which {t {8, me.ath-by month, becom- but_would encourage lccal talent and
ing ever more surely established. To
bring added entertainment into many
“those whose technical skill has brought
homes, A
this vast fund of knowledge and enter-
The Deputy Director of Posts and
tainment into every home, and to those sure the statlon According
‘who are prepared to put their business Telegraphs sald he felt the
energy and capital into the setling up would worthily uphold
| of broadcasting stations, we owe a ditions of broadcasting
highest tra-
in Tasmania. Representative Appointed a Sydney 8
beneficlary
measure of thanks.” . On behalf of the Postmaster-General's
Department, he expressed the wish that
In Austraha William Wr
HIGH TRADITIONS, the statfon would meet with every suc« mystery, Mr
3 Egypt realised that, next to cotton,
cess, 2 flclary is tl
" The Lord Mayor congratulated the the tourist trade was her moat import-
Y, .management on its enterprise, and said The Deputy Radio Inspector (Mr, E. J. ant industry, sald Mr. C. T. Jarman, Jones, once |
. the establishment of the station would Bowden) congratulated 7HT on behalf newly-appointed Australasian repre- Yates, wh
of the wireless branch of the Postmas- sentative of the Tourist Development
ter-General's- Department,— THT,he Assoclation of Egypt, yesterday. Mr. sioner, and
gald, was the fifth licensed station open- Jarman, who arrived In the Zealandia, made his w
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TWO RECORDS ed In Tasmania, and shortly another was will leave Hobart today for Launceston, It was four
to open in Queenstown. Including the and will return to the Mainland on former land
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two Natlonal stations, Tasmania, with Thursday. books owne:
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a population of 235,000 persons, would He sald that the Egyptian Tourlst oven to
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Premier Opens 7HT By therefore be served by elight statlons, Development Assoclation was an or- literated the
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representing 29,000 persons to,each sta- ganisation similar to the Austral ian ficlari es, on
Recorded Speech In comparlson, Victorla, with a National Travel Assoclation, subsldls- cipherable.
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tion.
population of 1,861,000 perkons, was ed by the Government, and having as its by probate ¢
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RADIO listeners were probab- served by 23 stations, representing 80,000 executive members business nien, ship- successful 8
Harmonlous ping and tourlst agents, railway officers, name. New
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persons to each station.
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l{ surprised when, at the
official opening of 7HT at Ho- relation existed between broadcasting and others concerned in the tourist in- will be used
stations and the Department. dustry. He had been in Egypt since the
bart last night, they heard the
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voice of the Premier of Tas-. The manager of the Vacuum Oll Co. war, durfng which he served with the
7th Light Horse, and had been connect-
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mania (Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, K.C.), Pty. Ltd. (Mr. J. 8. Gulline) also spoke,
who is en route to America. The ed with the tourist business for 15
After the official opening, the direc-
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voice, however, was brought to years. Hlis headquarters would be in
tors of THT were hosts to the guests of Sydney,-and-his-work-would- be-in-an
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b —fisteners bymedium of a re-— the evening at an Informal supper party advisory capacity.
1 corded speech made before the
Premier left Hobart. The time
at Hadley's Hotel. In its endeavours to develop Its Inquest
taken to record the speech and tourist trade, the Egyptlan Govern-
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deliver the completed record to ment last year spent £50,000 in Eng-
station 7HT Hobart constituted Skull Fractured With Hammer land alone, Of that £10,000 was spent
another record. Telephons con- | on a tour by British journalists through
An Inques
in
tact between the Premisr's NEW YORK, April 18, Egypt, and £30,000 in ndvermlnf ton yeaterds:
British newspapers and periodic als. F. N. Stops
office at Hobart and a record- Julia Nuegsenbaum (24), a violinist,
ing studio in Melbourne during died in hospital nine hours after ahe had Apart from Its sentimental associn - erick Lewls
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a morning permitted of the tions\ with Australla because of the who dled a
been found unconscious behind draperiea troops who served there during the war, celved whei
direct recording of the speech. in a rehearsal studlo. Her skull had
‘The record completed, it was Mr, Jarman sald, Egypt, Palestine, and, with a mo
dupatched to Hobart by air been fractured with blows from a ham- Sudan had much to offer the tourist. G. Saller, ©
the
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mer, which was left nearby. Employees Hotel prices had been considerably re- ton road on
mail at 1 p.m., and was in the saw a man leave the building.hastily. be
gffice of 7THT by 5 p.m. the same duced, and extended tours could Inspector
ay. The police are seeking a rejected sulitor, made at rates which, compared with ed the
The body was discovered by a woman conrts a few years ago, were {nexpénsive. Messrs, T. |
dancer. November, December, and January appeared or
were the best monthe to visit Egypt, George H
for charges then were even cheaper
gave eviden
than at other times of the year.
—————— The Inqu
until 11 ax
_Death From Snakebite
Ballarat (V.), April 19.—Bi tten on the State
hand by a snake when ‘l"ab.blnlnfi‘ at_