RADIO ADVISORY BOARD

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1927, Page 2

RADIO ADVISORY BOARD

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. At to-day’s Dominion conference of listeners-in, dissatisfaction was expressed with the manner in which the Radio Advisory Board was functioning, and a resolution was passed drawing the Government’s attention to the failure to fulfil the obligations which it made when tlie Board was set up. Tlie following resolution was carried: “ This conference urges tlie Government to create, at the earliest possible opportunity, a Broadcasting Advisory Board, on the following lines—fa) The power of the Board to be clearly defined; (b) P. and T„ R.B.C. dealers, and listeners to have equal representation.” The question of establishing a Dominion Radio League was, after discussion. postponed for a year, when it would be brought up at the next annual conference.

The musical co-ordinator addressed the Radio Conference to-day on the subject of musical programmes.

He said that in the past a false amateur standard lias been created. It was the Company’s aim to secure the very best talent in New Zealand, and the Company was determined to employ only the best professional talent. For the present this did not mean that amateurs were to be turned down altogether. They would be encouraged when they reached the standard of tlie concert platform. Until then they should not be allowed to experiment at the expense of the public.

In regard to iazz, Air Bellingham said he had yet to hear a jaz,z band in New Zealand, which came to what he considered tlie requisite standard, and jazz music would he presented in its least harmful form, per gramophone. The conference decided to support Ah Bellingham, especially as regards jazz.

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION, AVASHINGTON, Sept. 29.

Tlie International Radio Telegraphic Conference, opening next week, will lie confronted at the outset with two problems—a French contention that French should be the official language, and also whether the Conference should have a free hand in making changes in tlie Radio Clauses fixed at the Paris Conference in 1925. It is understood the United States desires the Conference to have that power, while the French do not accept this view.

It is intimated that the American delegation, backed by the British Empire and Japanese delegations, will ask that English will he tlie official language.