SPECIAL BROADCAST

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 276, 16 July 1932, Page 6

SPECIAL BROADCAST

HAWAI I NEWSPAPER ON THE AIR IN DOMINION DURJNG EVENING OF JULY 18. GOODWILL PROGRAMME The Honolulu Advertiser, Hawaii's morning newspaper since 1856, will greet its contemporaries and the radio audience of New Zealand in a, special radio programme over its station, KGU, on July 17, starting, at 10 p.m. Hawaiian time. This programme will be received in New Zealand from 8 to 9.30 p.m., on July 18. Station KGU broadcasts on a frequency of 750 kilocycles, or 499 metres, and has 2500 watts power. Echoes from all over the Pacific area are being heard as a result of KGU's new wave length. From "down under" in New Zealand and Australia, over a hundred letters.have been received, commenting on this station's new signal. From Midway Island on the west and the Pacific Coast on the East, to Samoa in the south, and from every island, and nearly every district in the territory a flood of radiograms,, letters and radio. club reports have come to KGU. Without exception, these letters praise KGU's signal, the clarity of its tone, the lack of interf erence from either static or other stations, and all remark on the excellence of the programmes. As a result of the many messages received from New Zealand, and the unusual interest of radio fans there in receiving radio pragrammes from KGU, a special New Zealand programme will be broadcast July 17, starting at 10 p.m., and continuing for about an hour and a half. Details have not been worked out as yet, but it is expected the' programme will largely consist of Hawaiian musie, which appears to be the preference of radio listeners in that part of the world. In the last mail from New Zealand, more than a hundred reports and letters have been received telling of the reception of KGU. These came from Wellington, Auckland, Cambridge, Rangataua, Gisborne, Hastings, Waikato, Dunedin, New Plymouth, Inglewood, Nelson, Mount Eden, Taranaki, Christchurch, Nelson and Otorohanga.