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engineers try desparately to prevent short circuits!

Reference

to the provision of broadcasting facilities by outside organiza- tions has already been made in the Technical Section.

Cantonese by Radio

57. A new series was under way at the beginning of the year under review. A completely new format had been devised for the programmes which were designed to give a knowledge of colloquial Cantonese. Preparations were being made for the broadcasting of an intermediate series of lessons to follow the primary series, when the programmes had to be abandoned owing to the death of their originator and producer, Mr. S. K. Lee.

Religious Broadcasting

58. Services are broadcast each Sunday morning by the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Salvation Army, the Union Church, and the English Methodist Church in rotation. Morning prayers are said twice a week by the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, and a Forces Evening Service is broadcast each Sunday, with an Epilogue to end each Sunday's broadcasting.

Reference Library

59. Approval was given for the purchase of several works to increase the scope of the library, and particularly to make available works of general reference, music, literary and historical reference. The lack of such works had for some time hindered the compilation of programmes.

Listeners' Letters

60. Letters continued to be received from many parts of the world from listeners to the shortwave transmissions. The bulk came from Japan, but the U.S.A., Australia, and South

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