Local Body Elections

New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 257, 26 May 1944, Page 5

Local Body Elections

E draw attention to the \y information given on Page 8 about. the broadcasting of Saturday’s election results. For the first time in the history. of New Zealand everybody is interested directly in the election. of local bodies as well as indirectly. For the first time it is possible to show these bodies coming into being hour by hour. Almost for the first time there is as much interest in the process in country districts as in the cities and towns. So the Broadcasting Service has made arrangements by which everyone who has access to a receiving, set may know the results in his area before he goes to bed: He may of course have to sit up late: that will. be decided by returning officers and poll-clerks and other agents or agencies that the Broadcasting Service cannot control. But he will get his results if he waits for them; by his own fireside if he has a radio; in a neighbour's house if there are no receiving facilities.in his own. That is the intention. That is the service the ‘Broadcasting Stations have planned to supply. But no plan will yield its best results unless it is understood. Listeners are asked therefore to examine carefully how the broadcasting areas are covered. Although no one is likely to listen to 1YA for the Mataura Borough Council results or to 4YZ for the Bay of Islands Hospital Board, there are borderline areas and overlaps in both islands that will»bring disappointment if they aré not known in advance. Otorohanga, for example, will be supplied from 1YA and not from 2YA, Ohakune from 2YA and not from 1YA, Picton from 2YA and not from 2YN; and so on. It is all as simple as a tram time-table if you seek for what you want in the right place; and as disappointing if you don’t. Do not take it for granted that you will hear the results in which you are most interested if you listen to the Station to. which you are most _accustomed, Turn to Page 8 and make sure. ae |