3YA Church Committee

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 3, 3 August 1928, Page 57

3YA Church Committee

THIS committee has been in existence since the beginning of the present year. I believe it is the first of its kind in New Zealand, and its formation is due to the insight and

foresight of Mr. A, R. Harris, general manager of the Broadcasting Company. It has functioned with a minimum of creaking, due gntirely to the fact that the denominational representatives are really anxious to give the project a thorough try-out. Six denominations are -represented on the committee, and we are "on the air’ turn and turn about every Sunday evening, except when there is a fifth Sunday in the month, which Sunday is at the disposal of the company. When this has occurred, the company has generously put before ys for our consideration any request for broadcasting that has been received from any denomination or religious body not represented on the committee. From the first meeting, our

(Continued from previous page). dates were arranged for practically a year ahead. . Lo We meet monthly, and discuss various requests for extra services during Sunday afternoons, suggestions brought forward ‘for the better handling of this most vital ‘public ‘service, etc. 'A T the present, time, we are experi- +* menting with regard to the broadeasting of morning services. Whatever defects the present arrangement may have in the minds of some, it is, in. my opinion, the most satisfactory as far as the general public is concerned. There are thousands of people in the Dominion who do not, or cannot, attend Divine worship, and to such radio is a reminder of the great issues of life which might be otherwise for-

gotten. That such broadeasting is | appre ciated is evident by the flood of letters received by the various preachers. \ B are on the edge of big things in connection with the broadcasting of the vital messages of religion. I see no reason why, in the near future, the Broadeasting Company should not jnstitute a "University of the Air," :by means of. which, through selected speakers, religion and its cognate subjects should become the mightiest educational factors in the life of the Dominion. In. wishing the "Radio Record" many happy returns of the day, Ishould like also’to place on record my deliberate opinion that the attitude of the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand to the use of the radio for religion, has been broad, ong wise, and sympathetic.

D. GARDNER

MILLER

Chairman.

3YA Church Service Committee,