Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 47, 7 June 1929, Page 10

Auckland Notes

(By

Listener

"AT the time of writing there is nothing new to report regarding efforts to secure resumption of broadcasting the Municipal Band. Our City Council has been occupied so much by transport matters that it has not yet found time to consider the wishes of the thousands of listeners within and beyoud its city boundaries. THE third relay of a Wellington Sunday concert was given by 1YA last Sunday, and proved as popular as its two predecessors. These relays have demonstrated beyond doubt that perfect crystal or valve reception of Wellington is thus possible, and that the land line is going to solve many future ‘problems in broadcasting. Incidentally -it may be mentioned that Aucklanders, through listening to the recent relays, have the highest opinions of the Wellington programmes.

Me. KARL ATKINSON provided music-lovers with another treat on Tuesday in one of his excellent gramophone lecture-recitals. He illustrated how a judicious selection of records, suitably introduced and explained, can provide a splendid programme with a universal appeal.

His any other listener noticed the relation between the movements of the barometer and the strength of distant reception. The writer possesses a barograph, and has observed that invariably on a rising barometer overseas stations come in at much greater strength than they do on a falling one. There was a good example this week. During the earlier days, Australian stations were heard poorly, but on Wednesday, when the barometer showed a pronounced upward tendency, volume increased to a remarkable degree. TA UCKLAND experienced its first long-distance provincial relay this

week when the official opening of the big Waikato Winter Show was put on the air by 1YA. Speeches and musical items alike were heard perfectly, and the broadcast must have been a splendid indirect advertisement for the show as well as a-.great boon to the many farmers in the district who could not spare the time to attend the function. The success of the relay indicates that there will be no difficulty in putting out from 1YA a complete Hamilton programme in the near future. There is abundance of talent in the dairy centre, and we may be assured that the officials of the Auckland station will soon organise it. CONCERT is also promised from the far north, Whangarei artists peing the contributors. The country centres so regularly hear the talent of the city that a reversal of the order will be decidedly a popular procedure with the likelihood that several artists will be discovered whose capabilities. will warrant their inclusion in programmes at such times as they can visit the studio. HORT-WAVE enthusiasts in the suburbs report numerous receptions of the speeches of the political leaders, who are concluding their British election campaigns as these notes are being written. Mr. Cooper, of Devonport, states that he picked up with perfect clarity a speech of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, but did not know who the speaker was until his name was announced at the conclusion of the address. On Friday night 1YA will come into the picture with the latest results of the polling, so that the whole province and the South Seas will know the political fate of Mr. Baldwin’s party almost as soon as the people of Britain will, In work of this kind broadcasting has a big lead over the newspaper.