Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 46, 31 May 1929, Page 3

Auckland Notes

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Listener

URING the past week there has been little to iecord regarding programmes except that they are still definitely on the up grade. Additional good artists appear, and there is more, though still not enough to satisfy some insistent demands, in the way of variety. Most of our small coterie of grumblers fail to realise that in operating four stations for less than 40,000 licensed listeners, the Broadcasting Company must cut its coat according to the cloth. Deurme the week-end an overseas visitor, after inquiring fully into ALLLUGCTE QUT ERERRAGEERQDERSIGQ ORO cRacaaeataceeanz

our New Zealand system of broadcasting, and considering its scope ane limitations, informed the writer tht we ought to be proud of what was being done for such small and widelyscattered communities. On the other hand, a weekly paper spreads itself in strenuous castigation of the Broadcasting Company and all its works. Perhaps the writer of its comments might take a leaf from the visitor's book, and view the problem of broadeasting in all its aspects before he rashly condemns what so many others approve. Licenses are steadily mounting at the Auckland post office. Surely the new licensees are sufficiently sound in judgment to know that what they will hear is well worth the money they are expending for the pleasure of hearing it. TITTITITTTITLITITTTTTTTIITITIELITT TTT Titi ti ttl iit