RADIO BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20494, 12 March 1932, Page 11

RADIO BOARD.

MEETING OF ADVISORY COUNCIL.

COVERAGE PROBLEMS. 1A HON TCLEOR\M.) AY ELLINGTON. 11. ne first meeting of the Advisory ;i appointed to make rccomuicndato the - scw Zealand broadcastwas coucluded to-day. yfr J ti. Owen, of Wellington, was - nt< j fhai'man of the Council. ■ deliberations were in private. ' j_, jie whole rield of broadcasting was ' jjgrßtf**l- - fit iudicatc-J that i» tlic opinion i J the Council certain localities were esent ill-served 1-y the VA stations, jflldistricts being Southland, Stewart 22L Central Otago, South CanterCoast, Nelson, Wairarapa, Gisborne. Palmerston SK* North Tarauaki, Waikato, and JtaTif PJenty-Kotorua. In this conSo# it """as resolved, that the next be taken might advantageously reoperation with existing stations in 2L following places: liivercargill, SLnwatb, Mastcrton. Hastings, Gisjjpjjje, Palmerston North, New Plymmjtb? *ni Hamilton. fja Board was recommended to coupler W mod as practicable cases not iu thi« list as they have at -jjBBtHO station*. The possibility of Lgrisg the position cither by inercaspower of the adjacent VA sta£ggt or by subsidising any station to to privately established in the locality, ft I* ether means was discussed, but j t|| COBBeii thought the policy of the H MTI » should ultimately be to increase tie power and coverage of the YA jjttiast rather than to build numerous nail stations. CoMMI considered that the supjtmut of serious radio interference nlpufj be the subject of Government „ nation. la eoanexion with the issue to listing of a ijnestionnaire on programme wefomiis. the Council expressed its tmwrsl of the effort to get an opinion ffily expressed in this way. Tltt Board wj|s asked to consider the jmmtr of doing something for New Infold! by way of a standard guide of jOMneiation for announcers, not ncces- «£ the lines of "Broadcast EngM* iwued by the British Broadeast- % Cwfoiatiou.