AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.

The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described the scene outside the boat-Tiouse and the interior of the house. He then went all over the life-boat, talking with the coxswain and motor mechanic.

This was followed by a telephone call for the life-boat. The maroon was fired ; the crew hurried in; and within five minutes the boat was in the water.

The broadcaster was on board with the microphone attached to him and a cable 180 feet long connecting it with the boat-house. In this way he was able to broadcast all the noises, not only of getting the life-boat ready, but of the actual launch.

The launch was radiated in Scotland and on the Empire transmitters. Later a letter was' received by the coxswain from Auckland, New Zealand, in which the writer said: " I listened to the very end of the very interesting broadcast...

Might I mention, being a Scotsman myself, although many years out here— thirty, to be exact—the tongue accent of yourself and your friend, the en- gineer, very much appealed to me, although the land of Burns was where I spent most of my schoolboy days, hi Ayr.".