ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 7

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

7 Bruce Mason.-Please write. Student (Hamilton) and The. Student (Wellington) .--Your letters arrived after the correspondence had been closed: 3 J.R,B. @Wellington).-The facts’ as you state them, in the Mozart-Bartok programme, are acknowledged, with ‘apologies; they were inquired into the next day. The explanation, which involves an account of certain difficulties (at present insuperable) in the simultaneous monitoring of more than one progfamme in one control room, cannot be clearly summarised in a note like. this, If you care to ring this office, an arrangement will be made for you to heer it. Hard-up Taxpayer (Christchurch).-(1) Legislation does. not permit time to be sold on non-commercial stations. (2) Government policy, as first laid down and still effective, is against the. salé of commercial-station time to religious organisations. (3) The amount of licence fee revenue far exceeds £135,000; the gross figure, 1950-51, was £ 580,821. Karl Elmendorff (Christchurch) .-Listeners who write to \point out announcers’ errors, especially jf station, date, and item or time are identified, are always sincerely thanked for their help in a ‘never-ending task-to improve anhouncing standerds. But to abuse ‘the appalling announcers" becayse some foreign words and names are mispronounced during transmissions totalling more than 100,000 hours a. year is no more helpful and no more just than it would be to describe sub-editors as illiterates because occasional grammatical errors and misprints appear in the most care-fully-produced newspapers, J. F. Lyon (Wanganui):-Dinner music programmes are not regarded as appropriate occas sions for music that deserves undistracted listening. Som : a Weather or Not (Christchurch).-If you will. be so’ kind as to give a few examples of the frequent» and unnecessary references, approximately dated, and"to specify the station or stations, inquiry will be facilitated. Reports on outdoor evyents-race meetings, games, shows, etc.-may be expected to include Do you mean other occasions than. these: Listener (Inch Clutha).-Letters are se~ lected in} accordance with interest and quality. Your other complaint is being passed on. A.A.M, ,(Kelburn):--What They Said ai the Time will stert from 2YA at 8.30 p.m, onMonday, December 10. r « Protestant (Waipukurau).- It followed aprocedure established over a number of years for this annual" broadcast.’ It is not unusual for a YC station ‘to be used in this way. for a daytime broadcast for which it may not, be desired to alter the main programme structure for the’ day. ; ihn W. R. Tooth (Christchurch).-The version played is that officially adopted by the British | Broadcasting Corporation; orchestrated and arranged. by Gerrard Williams, formerly Musical "Director of the BBC; performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult; and recorded by H.M.V. Sis