BROADCASTING UNIT FOR SERVICE OVERSEAS
PEAHE Government has decided to send overseas a complete broadcasting unit to become an essential part of the 2nd New Zealand Division now stationed in Egypt. In all probability this unit will sail with the 2nd Echelon. Necessary equipment for the unit is now being constructed in Wellington. Three specially selected officials will control the unit — an observer, an engineer, and a technician. Each will be a fully qualified broadcasting official. In sending this broadcasting unit to accompany the overseas troops in their various spheres of action, the people of New Zealand will be brought into closer contact with their own soldiers. Records and talks will be. made on the field of action, for distribution later through the various stations in New Zealand. Similarly, records of important events in the Dominion will be made here for broadcasting by loud-speakers to the men in their various camps. On this reciprocal basis our overseas soldiers will be kept fully acquainted with activities in the Dominion while they are absent, and those on the home front will be able to maintain a more personal contact with the men who are away. It is thought, also, that this unit will be of considerable his-
torical value after the war, and that it will be of immediate value in maintaining the morale of the troops and of the nation. Here, briefly, are the activities with which the broadcasting unit will be concerned: To transmit news by cable | or letter from the forces overseas to New Zealand for broadcasting here. To make disc records of events, voices of personalities, eye-witness accounts, etc., for sending to New Zealand to broadcast throughout the Dominion and to form part of an historical library of the war for future use. To receive news by cable | ; / ’ / or letter from. New Zealand to broadcast to the troops overseas. To receive and broadcast to the troops news and programmes which it may be possible to transmit to them by shortwave from New Zealand direct, or via Australia. To receive discs from New Zealand of commentaries and programmes specially designed for _ broadcasting abroad, either by any local stations available or by loudspeaker sets to gatherings of men.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 4
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368BROADCASTING UNIT FOR SERVICE OVERSEAS New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 4
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