Microphone Man

NZ Truth, Issue 1173, 24 May 1928, Page 6

Microphone Man

HERE you are, wizards of the welkin waves— tune -in: "This is station

IZB broadcasting from La Gloria's private broadcasting studio, Karangahape Road, Auckland. . . ."

Thus, every Monday evening, the clear, concise voice of Douglas Hesketh Shipherd, with a programme-trail of well-selected music, takes the air on a weekly ethereal trip around the wireless world. That is, as far as the station's power will permit. It is three years since the La Gloria station launched out on the wireless tides. Not with broadcast "breakers," but with a well-placed effort to add move rippling wavelets to the sea of radio.

Successful? Well, D.H.S., who installed the plant and now acts as controller and announcer, has a sheaf of congratulatory epistles from listenersin as far south as Oamaru. So it sounds as though the station is popular. ' -■'•"■.

Doug, was bitten by the radio bug en his return from the front — he served m Gallipoli and France, with ,the* Ist Field Engineers— and now, as manager of. the Federal Radio House, specializes on the anatomical pains of valetudinarian valve-sets and other radio apparatus. : ■ '. .

When he getd time, D.H.S. likes the swing of s a tennis racquet or a. splash m the briny. 1 Some years ago, as a me/nber of the old; Waitemata Club, he was known as a successful competitor m swimming events,