RADIO EXHIBITIONS.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 53, 19 July 1929, Page 6

RADIO EXHIBITIONS.

[NTEREST in both Wellington and Dunedin is concentrating upon the forthcoming Radio Exhibitions. Arrangements in each centre are well in hand, and those responsible feel assured of attaining definite success in comprehensive displays of the latest radio apparatus calculated to interest the public. The advance that radio has made in the technical, field of late has been remarkable, particularly since the development of the all-electric sét. This more than anything else of recent years has popularised radio, in providing a receiver that is, to a greater degree than’ ever before, fool-proof. | Where electricity is available, the A.C. set is enjoying a wonderful popularity, and the indications are that this will continue. Especially in rural districts. is it proving popular. ’ The battery occasions some little trouble, which many wish to avoid. In certain districts the battery has a sphere of usefulness with which nothing will interfere. The battery-operated set will not disappear from radio, because it offers definite advantages, and will continue in spite of the A.C. receiver. Each type of set’ has its place, and in the Exhibition about to be staged the best in each field will be submitted for the consideration of the buying public. THE. Wellington Exhibition will be opened by the Postmaster- _ General, the Hon. J. B. Donald. Mr. Donald has already proved himself a fluent speaker over the air, as he was broadcast from Station 1YA on the occasion of the opening of the Auckland Winter Show. That he is specially interested in radio Mr. Donald has already shown, and we think the cause of radio in this Dominion will not suffer at his hands. , : SOME letters of special interest appear in this issue in our Mail Bag Corner. , These are from listeners in the country who. have felt impelled to reply to observations concerning _programmes made recently by other correspondents. The striking point about these indications is the emphasis they lay upon the service that radio renders to the €ountry dweller: THIS, too, is the note that has struck the Editor-Announcer of the Radio Broadcasting Company as a result of a recent comprehensive tour of the Dominion, carried out by himself in connection with the important relays made recently by the Company from various provincial centres. Radio has a special appeal for the country dweller,

_and it is interesting to know the emphasis: that these typical country correspondents lay upon their enjoyment of it, in contrast to what they regard as the pin-pricking criticisms of essentially city dwellers ‘THIS point of view is of particular interest in face of the progressive policy announced last week by the Company in its plans for . extending service to country dwellers, By either A.C. sets or battery sets, it is now possible for practically every corner of the Dominion to derive a high degree of service from the existing YA stations, The technical efficiency of that service would, of course, be increased by suitable relay stations established at strategic points; and that objective, we take it, will not be lost-sight of by the Company. Rather it will be brought nearer of accomplishment ‘as the numbers of distinctly rural listeners, increase. . Testimony such as_is afforded by the letters of corresporidents this week is valuable as a corrective of the slightly one-sided view that may develop on the part of city listeners. t