Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 9, 13 September 1929, Page 12

Auckland Notes

TD=CISION has been reached. Auckland is to have a radio exhibition. It will not he the first display of this kind that has been giveri in the Queen City, for some years ago a radio society now defunct conducted- a most successful "small scale’ display in-the science rooms of the Auckland University College. It will, however,’ be the first ambitious attempt, and such is the degree of enthusiasm over matters wireless in the city and suburbs, that already the function is assured of suc« cess. So far as is known at present, the exhibition is to be entirely a radio one, for the associated dealers who are sponsoring it feel that they can fully equip the big Town Hall with displays, which alone will provide a powerful draw. Our radio exhibition will eventuate during the last week in October, and will be kept open for three or four days. At the Dunedin and Wellington displays, held a few weeks ago, official opening ceremonies were held. during the daytime, and thus the radius of listening to these functions was more confined than it would have been were -the. ceremonies conducted at night. It should be worth while for the executive of the Amckland exhibition to consider the advisability of an

evening official opening. The wider range of publicity that can thus be seeured is well worth a few hours’ postponement. The . southern ‘stations would have better chance of broadcasting important speeches by night, and there would be an infinitely bigger audience ta hear them. The advantages of holding an, exhibition so late in the year are apparent, The very latest models will be available for display, and the Christmas radio trade, which this year should. be a record one, will receive a splendid boost. It is known that the Broadeasting Company will render eyery possible help, and listeners and local radio societies can be relied on to put their shoulders to the wheel, for Auckland is out to make her radio exhibition a record one and to. eclipse even Wellington’s fine lead. . [The official opening of the Wellington Hxhibition was held at 8 pmEd.j (ITE a wrong impression-the idea that a fadio set may be a menace to life and property-has gained some ground locally through incomplete explanations of the cause of a fatality through electrocution. A local resident was killed by an electric shock when affixing an earth wire for a radio set; but, and this is the essential point, he suffered death from shock, through a faulty flex used on an elec-

trie lamp which was giving him illumination under the floor of his house. This: electrical connection had in itself nothing whatever to do with a receiver. In fact, the receiver which the unfortunate gentleman was: making preparations for had not at the time been delivered. The public generally should be made aware that the likelihood of accident from electrical connections for radio sets is infinitesimal compared with the risks run’ in using an electric iron. BATIERY-OPDRATED sets are selling for a song, these. days, for the publi¢q is quick to recognise the added advantages of the electric receiver, for which there is now a most heartening demand. Shrewd investors, however, find the older models, with eliminators and trickle chargers, render most efficient service for a remarkably low price. There should be little excuse now on the score of. cost for the absence of a wireless set in the home. QuUR dinner music session is now in its first week of presentation, but already it has won a wide popularity. On all hands the writer has heard commendation of the action of the Broadcasting Company in instituting this service, and also, incidentally, in thus providing an extra hour of broadeasting per day. This is a "service point" that has not yet fully dawned upon listeners, , BENG anxious to hear accounts of the New Zealand boxing championships at Greymouth, the writer tuned in Christchurch last, Saturday evening and obtained excellent reception. Tuning to 1YA for an instant, he found the local station rebroadeasting 8YA to such splendid advantage that not q word of the’ ringside descriptions in the West Coast town was indistinct. It is’ doubtful if Christchurch has ever been rebroadcast better in the north than it was on Saturday evening, ,