Judging the Popular Taste

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 23, 21 December 1928, Page 6

Judging the Popular Taste

Winner of .the £50 Columbia Granfonola

HE winner of the £50 Columbia Grafonola, donated by the N.Z. Distributors of Columbia Products as the prize in the recent radio competition conducted by the Broadcasting Company was:MR. JAMES C. PASCELL, Cromwell, Central Otago. It was after a lengthy sorting-out process that the judges arrived at their decision. It was necessary to take into account pot only the actual number of items that competitors had placed correctly, but also the number which had been transposed and which were therefore very near the correct order. In several instances the averages of the items were very close, the difference being only a decimal point, and in the sorting-out of the coupons, transpositions of this nature were taken into account. Eventually, by a process of elimination, only Mr. Pascell’s coupon was left. The winning coupon was taken from the "Radio Record," and the station listened to was 4YA. It is interesting to note that the winner is one of the 216 who heard the competition from 4YA, and that he is one of the 80 who forwarded in "Radio Kecord" coupons from Otago. !