A local listener reports reception of Budapest on Sunday evening between 22.30 and 23.00 o'clock Shanghai time. The programme, which consisted chiefly of Russian music, was broadcast over HAS3, 1952, 15.370 mc/s, and came through very clearly and at fair signal strength. Announcements were made in Hungarian and Russian by a lady announcer and also in English just before the station closed down at 2300 with the Hungarian National Anthem. At that time, it was announced that the station would be on the air again next Sunday at the same time. It is quite some time since I heard this station, but reference to my log-sheets show that HAS3 should be on the air each Sunday between 22.00 and 2300 Shanghai time. Reports of reception should be sent to: Radiolabor, Gyali Ut 22, Budapest, Hungary. mated cost of £250,000, as part of the Federal Governments communication service. Twenty-five radio stations which could be used for communication and naval purposes are being erected on the principal Australia civil aviation routes at a cost of £400,000. Twelve, more stations are proposed, Aesop Up to Date Henry Reed, once the pianist in Henry Hall's band at Gleneagles, and who now does a great deal of work for the BBC's North Regional programmes, nas been amusing Home listeners for some months past with his own freely-adapted versions of Aesop's Fables. He writes words and music himself, and his technique is considered to resemble that of the Pleasant and good it is to ride the same horse, to sit in the same chair, to wear the same old coat. That man who offered twenty pounds' reward for a lost carpet-bag full of old boots was a sage, and I wish I knew him. Why should one change one's place any more than one's wife or one's children? Is a hermit-crab, slipping his tail out of one strange shell into another, in the hope of its fitting him a little better, either a dignified, safe, of graceful animal? CHARLES KINGSLEY.
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