From One Broadcasting Company to Another.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 12, 5 October 1928, Page 7

From One Broadcasting Company to Another.

; "Southern Cross" conveys Greetings. Pe THE "Southern Cross" the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand _ Limited. received a letter from the Broadcasting Company of New South Wales, conveying greetings to commemorate the trans-Tasmau flight. The "Southern Cross" carries the following letter from Mr. A. R. Harris ou its return journey :- "We take the opportunity of the return flight of the ‘Southern Crosx’ to Sydney. and of the courtesy of Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant Uln, to acknowledge with the greatest pleasure the greetings conveyed to us in your letter of September 8 which was conveyed across the Tasmiun in the first airplane to reach New Zealand's shores from an overseas land. "The occasion has been an historic one for our two countries, and to us who are engaged in broadcasting it has had a special appeal on account of the part that radio has played in the enterprise. We are also interested in this other means of annihilating distance and time. Your stations and ours, Which speak nightly to the people across the Tasman, have been the means of drawing our two countries closer and closer together, and this rapprochement has been cemented by the rapid flight of a heavier than air machine from your land to ours. The ethereal and the material connection between the two countries cannot but be for good. "The ‘Southern Cross’ will leave Christchurch this afternoon for Blenheim, where she will leave New Zealand soil on her flight back to Australia. Hier departure is timed for Sunday morning, and we trust that the airmen will be safe at Richmond aerodrome by the evening, when we will take the liberty of re-broadeasting your description of the landing. "Hearty greeting by the first airplane to leave New Zealand for Australia." TRHE chief engineer of the New South Wales Company, Mr. Ray Allsop. also sent his greetings to the chief engineer of the New Zealand Company. Mr. J. M. Bingham, to which Mr. Bingham has replied in like manner.