GHOST VOICE ON THE AIR
Tiiis is station 2ZB, Wellington, ealling the people of New Zealand. Britain has declared war on liussi.a. Here are the rea'sons — " This was the text of an announcement heard by a Wellington resident .on the wireless on Sunday night. The resident said the announeeraent was made about 8.05 p.m. from a wavelength close to 2YA. The message was quite c.lear on the air but he "thought .the vvhole thing was a jolce because the reasous for deelaring war were silly auyway. An offieial of the Post and Telegraph \ Bepartment said no reports of fhe ' broadcast had been received but it was not unlikely. "We have been liaving tr.ouble from people* who bouglit transihitting sets from the War Assets Realisation Board. The majority of the s.ets have a- limited range so it is unIjkely the broadcast was heard over a wide area if it came from ohe'of these sets. ' '
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470618.2.22
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1947, Page 4
Word Count
153GHOST VOICE ON THE AIR Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1947, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in