ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 11

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Valerie Skinner (Auckland): They were written for radio, and to the best of our knowledge have not been published in any other way. But we shall make inquiries, R. O. Matches (Oamaru): Thank you. The Mermaid Press, Box 481, Wellington. C.T.C. (Otorohanga): Not available commercially, Mary D. Bowlen (Wellington): The series was broadcast by YC stations last year between April and August. 1YC initiates the second playing, which will reach Wellington Programmes in the last quarter of this year or the first of next. F. Four Ears Pricked in Vain (Motueka): It’s a question of time. If a little is lost, it has to be picked up again to maintain the punctuality programmes, C, Clayton (Auckland): It is a little soon to start that argument again, Lover of Real Music ( hristchurch): No re cordings available. ; F Tucker (Gisborne): A recording label was misread when the announcer’s script was being typed for him. You would have written with less asperity about announcers, erhaps, if you had known, or recalled, that it is the announcer’s usual task to read a script prepared by others. If there are errors in it, they may be of a kind easy to detect and correct; more often, they are not. The preface to Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary is worth reTreading. Mrs Mary Robb (Nelson): Much appreciated. Will pass it on to the writer, Mrs Mudlark (Milton): Afraid might be actionable. By now perhaps you will have seen the writer’s further explanation. Interested Listener (Ashburton): They ‘are all Friendly Road choirs conducted by Uncle Tom. The broadcasts from 1ZB are "live’’; those from 2ZB and 3ZB are recorded. Plastic Foam (Napier): Questions may be sent to 1YA, Auckland. Conrad Bollinger (Wellington): Too late now to open a correspondence on that subject. Peter Hammond (Hastings): There are no lans to introduce F.M. broadcasting in New This system has some advantages over A.M.; but there are disadvantages-for instance, F.M. allows no wide secondary service area, which is very useful in. New Zealand. Europe has introduced F.M, because satisfactory service on the medium-wave broadcasting band is no longer possible, frequency allocations to stations being over-congested. Such congestion does not exist here. NZBS transmission standards are maintained at a high level, to the advantage ~ listeners who care to install high-fidelity receivers. ° Gare (Wellington): You're gat right. Hereafter, in those circumstances, the acknow- ledgment will be as to "A.B. and others, ylan Fan (Wellington): The BBC version is available to stations now as they request it; the commercial one will not be played again ill late next year. E. re. garner Bale re Rages Still available, but the recording is betray its age. Possibilities will be discussed ith 4YA-YC, Girls and at ’em (Te Puke): Sorry to spoil it, but letters must be related to broadcasting or. to topics raised in The Listener, And no itics please.