Popular Radio Inspector

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 44, 17 May 1929, Page 6

Popular Radio Inspector

Mr. A. W. Head Farewelled , R. A. W. HEAD, radio. inspector for the Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch, has been notified of his transfer to Awarua, Bluff, where he will be superintendent of the wireless station. On Monday evening prior to his leaving for the south the Radio Society gave a send-off in its rooms to Mr. Head. Mr. D. McMahon, an officer of the Post and Telegraph Department, and now at the Wellington radio station, succeeds Mr. Head in Christchurch. The function was a fine tribute to the popularity of Mr. Head and to his efficiency as a radio inspector. His duties have mainly consisted of inspecting amateur radio stations and enforcing , the payment of lisenting-in license fees, > He has been a very active official, keen- * ly interested in radio and all pertaining thereto, During his term as radio inspector in Christchurch-a matter of slightly over two years-he has seen the n ber of licensed listeners grow from 2 few hundred-600 odd, so it was stated at his valedictory gathering-to the present satisfactory total of thousands,