A SUGGESTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 643, 22 September 1933, Page 4

A SUGGESTION

Information received in Rotorua indicates that the portable transmitting set in use by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board at present in Auckland is not being used on essential work at the present time. This set has been employed on testing work in various parts of the country and is of sufficient power to broadcast from any part of the Dominion. The value of Rotorua' s holiday celebrations might be considerably increased if the Broadcasting Board could be persuaded to allow the set to be brought to Rotorua during the ChTistmas carnival and used to broadcast the various activities then in progress. There is no doubt that this would do a great deal to popularise the carnival and incidentally would give one Government Department (for the Broadcasting Board is practically that) an opportunity to assist another. The Tourist Departriient and the country generally reaps a proportion of the. benefit from any extra influx of visitors to the town and if the set could be used to bring this ahout, it would be used to material advantage. The set is moTlrite'd on a lotry and it is undeTstood that there are no technical difficulties in the Way of its. operation iii Ro-

torua. It is quite possible alsD that useful - data concerniiig transmitting conditions iri this area wotild be obtained by bringirig it hefri. If. -the experiment proved successful, it might be found profitable to use the set as a travelling hfoadcasting station which cdlild bei- tised to broadcast events of riatiOnal interest from any part of the j country. There is no . doubt that it could be used .in sueh a way that it would increase the- value "of the boafd's service to listen-ers-in. j The matter is one .coricerning J which the Advancement Com- 1 mittee of the Bdroiigh - Council and the Tourist ^ Department might very well make enquiries from the board and • aseertain its feeling in the matter.