SHORT-WAVE BROADCAST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 9

SHORT-WAVE BROADCAST

Government Propq^als WHAT N.Z. IS ACHIEVING Asked if there had been any develop"mcnts iii connection with h.is proposal to ha\e regular short-wave broadcasts irom Kew Zealand to otlier countrieh, the Prime Ministcr, tlie Rt. Ilon. M. J. Havage. in an interview recently, said the stateiiient he had made before hi3 departure for England still ptood, Some sehenie of broadeasting to other countries, he said, would be estubli&hed immediately arrangements for tho Dominion 's intornul broadeasting s>stein had been eonipleted. JBy broadeasting from a powerfal station ln more tbun one language Mr Savage hopes to be able to teJl other uations what New 2ealand is aehieving, os well as to advertise its products and attiactions. Mr Savage aiso sam ciiat Sir .'John Kpith, Director Gtiit.rai of the British Broadeasting Corporation", whoin he met in London, had oifered to give New Zealand an,y assistanee lie eould in the develo|nnent of radio services in New Zealand and had offercd to send a nian to tlio Dominion to adviso if at any timo it Avas fo'jnd necessary to obtiiin expert advieo on any Leelinieal InouuMeasting probloat.