SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS.
NEW ZEALAND TO THE WORLD. EARLY ESTABLISHMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Asked if there bad been any developments in connection with his proposals to have regular shortwave broadcasts from New Zealand to other countries, the Minister of Broadcasting, Mr Savage, in an interview, said the statement he made before his departure for England still stood. Some scheme of broadcasting to other countries would be established immediately and arrangements made for the Dominion’s internal broadcasting system to be completed by broadcasting from a powerful station in more than one language. Mr Savage hopes to be able to tell other nations what New Zealand is achieving as well as io advertise its products and attractions. Mr Savage also said Sir John Reith, DirectorGeneral of the British Broadcasting Corporation, whom he met in London, had offered to give New Zealand any assistance he could in the development of radio services in New Zealand and had offered io send a man to the Dominion to advise if at any time it was found necessary to obtain expert advice on any technical broadcasting problem.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 8
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182SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 8
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