SPORTS BROADCASTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 849, 18 December 1929, Page 6

SPORTS BROADCASTS

‘AUCKLAND WORST CENTRE IN DOMINION” CRICKEUNG INACCURACIES “I Have no hestitation whatever in saying that as far as sports broadcasting is concerned, Auckland is the worst served centre in New Zealand.*’ Thus Mr. E. E. Nalder, chairman of the management committee of the Auckland Cricket Association complained at the committee’s meeting last evening about the manner in which cricket news is disseminated over the air from station IYA on Saturday evenings. Mr. Nalder said that he had listened in to Wellington and Christchurch on Saturday evenings and from those centres comprehensive results of Saturday’s cricket were issued in the evening. Mr. W. J. Smeeton (University) said that in Christchurch the broadcasting station had a special sports reporter on its staff, and evidently Auckland had not gone as far as that yet. Mr. Nalder: It seems strange that Auckland, the largest city in the Dominion, does not have a better service. Another member, Mr. D. V. Moore (Primary Schools) said that in the winter comprehensive football results were broadcast by IY'A. The suggestion that the company would broadcast the intelligence if the Cricket Association supplied it was made by Mr. W. Harwood (Secondary Schools), to which Mr. Nalder said: • But why should we have to supply ft?” Mr. Moore pointed out that on Saturday last one glaring mistake had been made when it was announced that Eden made 31. Gillespie 54 not out. Another complaint was that results were often incomplete. The committee members, however, had the highest praise for the manner in which the representative matches had been broadcast in the past.