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G. ATTITUDE.

The Postmaster-General Sir William Joynson-Hicks, mude the follow statement Last month to the Political correspondent of the Daily Mail with regard to wireless licences.

Mr. Kellaway, who Postmaster General, or wrongly, gave the British desating Company so agreement for two years. This laid it down that during that time the Postmaster Graural should issue broadcasting licences subject to

payment of los, & fitcase, half

of which was given to the company.

That the owner of the licence should buy only British Broadcasting Com... pany's instrumented to the Post- Bet there master-General the power to issue experi inental licences free of all comitions. Home 40,000 people have applied for ex perimental licences. I am convinced that

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the great majority of these are more in- terental in experimental construction than they are in actually listening to

Concert

The British Broadcasting Company ob jected to my issuing this licence, negotiations have taken place to see who the

I can issue a third licedes to th peuple.

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The company suggested that liceted should costs, of which the Pust heu should give over 15%, also that all the con Popens parts used by constructors should De marked.B.C." at manufacturer by One of the combine.

These two souditions I objected to.

COMPONENT PARTS.

The company have now given way with. regard to the ces, and agreed to my issuing A cotistructor's nence at 10, but they mist on the That would it as being BBC. parts. prevent the constructor from manking his own machine as he naked and would give complete monopoly to ma- facturers in the combine as against other British manufacturers and as against foreign masofacturers.

I have to sympathy with foreign manu- facturers and I have offered to make it a condition that the third licence that all the Parts Used by consortetors, be of British Juanufacture.

It is noteworthy that the British Broad- crusting Copy agreed last week to my Suting a fence under these conditions Only if I made the fee 2, which declined; but since they will agree to a fed ut 10s. they are insisting that all the opbouent parts should be made by their own cabine,

that I cannot agree to,

My own opinion is that Fem entitled to isste experimental licences, and that I am even congeled to do so should my ap plicants for such licences erst me. This

ation have left to the Legst Depart-: tent of the Post Office for tische considont- tion and of their opinion 1 shall have to out

200,000) UNLICENSED,

There are probably 202,000 people at the present time using wireless sets for which they have paid nu lisence at all. I think the British Broadcasting Company arg waking a pistake frous their own point of view in not agreeing to my proposals. If as of believe, I am compelled to issue ex perimental licences which would not cups under the existing agreement, they would get nothing; bat if they agreed, as 1 sug. gested, to third hence of 9, which is not a prohibitive figure, the majority of these people would come in and take licelices and.. the British Broadcasting Colysany woahi receive 24, for every one thus taken."

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A portrait of Mrs. Edith Cowan, ().B.E., M.L.A.. has been hung in the Publiú Library, Perth, Western Australia, commemorate the fact that she was the first Australian woman to be elected, to an Australian Parliament. The portrait was unveiled on January 19th by the lion. Lady Newdegate before a large gathering of women, The Premier of Western Aus- ralia and other State Ministers, and the Mayor of Perth, and the ceremony. Mrs. Cowan has been a member of the Western Australian, Legislative Assembly for nearly two years,

ANOTHER DANCING RECOED.

Miss Alma Cummings, a vegetarian, after dancing continuously for fifty hours and thereby beating her previous record df twenty-seven hours, restert on the night of April 10th amid the applause of a big audience, including six utterly wornout partners. As a memento of the event she $ne presented with a silvey cup worth 5 with an inscription declaring ber thể sinner in physical endurance and terpi therean grace. Mis Cummings déolares that she bass, her power of endurglice of In vegetarian diet. She now ranks with such stut luminaries as Dan O'Leary, who walked 105,000 miles, and His Hook- chschmidt, who shared a man in six scoonds without mortally wounding the victim.

WOMEN SOLICITORS.

A very remarkable success was achieved nt: the Lost Law Society, examination of students by Miss Agnes Twiston Hughes. Not only was this lady only womas student pass the final examination, lazt she was awarded the Sheffield Priza (founded by Mr. Arthur Wightman); Valie about £55, and the John Mackrell Prize, value about £13. Miss Hughes in a. Bachelor of Science of London Univer- sity. Boveral other Tomen passed in the intermediate examination, the legal portion of the examination -oply, and in the hust accounts and bookkeeping portion,"

AN EXPENSIVE TERM OF CONTEMPT.

The public in Berlin will do well in future to avoid the term "silly goose. its favourith expression of contempt for a woman Berlin court, on April 18th, fiued a woman 100,000 marks for using the expression to a girl booking clerk who was rather glow in handing out a ticket, The Court held the view that the form wan abusive, and that the woman clerkonght to be protected against insult.

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