HAWKE'S BAY NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 2, 29 July 1927, Page 12

HAWKE'S BAY NOTES

{ By broadcasting the description of the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa Shield gnatch at Masterton on July 9, the Radio Broadcasting Company made a lot of friends up this way. One cannot help ut offer congratulations te the comany for its efforts, but it should be he announcer who should get most of the credit for this. The reception was good, but from a station like 2YA we expected it to be so, and it was not so much the transmission which gained so tatiy friends for radio as the gentleman who described the game. Why, he had the stay-at-home crowds in Napier. and Ulastings almost as excited as if they were actually seeing the match. At times, though, his voice was blotted ent by the local crowds giving vent to their enthusiasui when the tide turned in favour of ‘the Bay." With the description of the Trentham races following, a great .demand has heen created for receivers, and dealers are in hopes of a rosy time. If the Broadcasting Company could "realise as we listeners do what a difference 2YA is making, no time would be lost in bringing the three other stations into line. If this were done, and done soon, and the quality of the programmes correspondingly improved, there would thot be such a cry for Government control, and radio licenses would soon yeach the desired 40,000. It’s worth thinking about, anyhow. Local listeners are still on the job_ with their growl about,the proposal to_ observe a silent night at @2YA. Why should it be so at this station or any of the other main plants for that matter? It is all piffle to talk about closing down for overhaul, Surely an afternoon off, with all the mornings of the week in the same box is sufficient for this. How does 2BI, manage for an overhaul? ‘They don’t even have the giorning free, and it is hard to see why an up-to-date station like 2YA should be any different. Although it: may not be generally known "abroad," the Hastings Radio Society, which has developed into a pretty strong body, is now working hard for the erection of a station of its own, and the sole reason for this is that the present broadcasting hours and programines ate not meeting with vequirements. In New Zealand. there is no musical entertainment between 4.80 p.m. and 8 p.m., and this does not eater for farmers, school children, hospital patients, and so on, when 8 o'clock means time for bed, and it is

to fill in this gap that the- Hastings Society is moving. The society has already secured permission to erect the plant, and at present is after sufficient funds to install it, aud have a little in hand to carry ou. The proposed plant will have an output of 50 watts, and at the moment it is intended to be on the air from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m,, three nights per week. As will be readily seeti, there is to be no competition wit the main stations, so the proposal should meet with full favour. Just now, the society is awaiting receipt of its articles of incorporation, and when these come to hand, and the body is a ee ee ee eh Ue

on a sound footing, debentures are to be issued. No difficulty is anticipated in "raising the wind’? as soon as the "big push" starts. es © ‘he incorporation articles provide for the Hastings Society changing its name to "the Hawke’s Bay Radio Society," so the whole province will be its area. IL hope this does not clash with the ideas of our Napier friends, whio, by the way, seem to have come back to life, under the name of the Napier Listeners’ League. The Tlastings Society installed a receiver in its club room on the occasion of the broadcast of the shield match on July 9, and a collection was taken up in aid of the Jocal unemploy"ment fund. Despite a couple of trouser buttons and more than a few lhalf-pen-nies, and still more browns and church coins, the total came to £4 Os. 6d..