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Updated June 7 2016 - 12:41pm, first published June 3 2016 - 1:15pm

With Times archivists Rod and Wendy Gow

This week's Throwback Thursday gallery features photographs from the Taree Envirofair 2005 to 2015. The gallery features on our web page.
This week's Throwback Thursday gallery features photographs from the Taree Envirofair 2005 to 2015. The gallery features on our web page.

T.V. Interference - The old story of two-way radio taxis interfering with television reception, has taken a new turn. Now it's the television station interfering with the two-way radios. The base station of Geary's Taxi Service, at Pitt Street, Taree, yesterday picked up all the children's sessions on the national channel during the morning. The programmes could be heard all morning, except when calls came through on the radio, when the interference faded out. Mrs. Geary said this was the first time the interference had occurred. Superintendent-secretary of Manning District Ambulance, Mr. C. E. Wiseman, said yesterday that intermittently signals were received on the ambulance two-way radio from the national television station since it had started transmitting in the Manning River area. On Monday, however, the signals were received all day. The radio picked up music, movies, and a French play. Mr. Wiseman said he spoke to the local A.W.A. representative, Mr. Roger Topp, who checked the equipment and could find no reason for the freak happening. Mr. Wiseman also contacted the Taree postmaster, Mr. H. J. McCubbin, who is co-operating, and will report the interference to the inspector at Newcastle. As yet, the interference had not been received at the branch stations of the ambulance at Wauchope and Port Macquarie, Mr. Wiseman said. The signal from the television was so strong on Monday, that Taree officers could not hear messages from the Wauchope branch, although Wauchope could hear Taree quite clearly. On the other hand, he said, when Taree station received a call from a vehicle at Coolongolook, the television interference faded out while the message was being taken.

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