Christchurch Exhibition

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 20, 29 November 1929, Page 7

Christchurch Exhibition

Novel Effects Create Interest

=-_-- "THE radio dealers of Christchurch who organised the first radio exhibition held in this city, and thus blazed the trail for what will be an annual event, ure to be congratulated on the success of the initial venture. The exhibition closed its five-day session on Saturday evening with the Chorai Hall crowded. The Christchurch Radio Exhibition was different from the usual conceytion of an exhibition, and meant something vastly more than a display of products arranged by any trade. A home-like atmosphere pervaded. ‘The Choral Hall had been furnished to give that effect, for a radio recéiving set is, after all, a home instrument. The whole of the central floor space of the Choral Hall had been carpeted and furnished as a lounge, and the various rooms in which radio apparatus wus on view opened off the lounge. The effect was decidedly pleasing. In a sense, the Christchurch Radio Exhibition was a musical festival, for there was displayed a diversity of instruments capable of creating out of the thin air the whole gamut of music. No one without a wireless set in the home could fail to be impressed, when visiting the exhibition, with the desirability of owning one of the music reproducing instruments of the kinds shown. While broadcasting is now a hoysehold word, there aré many pe»ple who have not lived down the aversion to it engendered by the poor reproduction of music they may have at some time heard. The modern receiving set iriaeeruaie

reproduces instrumental music and the human voice well nigh perfectly. The exhibition was intended to demonstrate to visitors that in radio broadcasting science had opened up for man an opportunity of expanding his life to the fullest’ extent. It: showed that the pleasures and advantages hitherto associated with wireless are but a small part of the immense field of education, utility and amusement afforded by the latest types of radio receiyers and the improved standard of components. During the exhibition the Broadcasting Company supplied the entertainment programmes eyery night. In accordance with practice, programmes of different types were presented nightly -band concert, classical, operatic, and vaudeville-in order to show the diversity of entertainment provided in the regular service. These programmes were broadeast from a model studio at the exhibition, and showed the extent to which the entertainment talent in Christchurch has been availed of for radio, The exhibition set out to show people not already wireless enthusiasts that a broadeasting service was well worth while being availed of, and that the 1929-80 receiving sets are practically perfection. The modern set, particularly the all-electric one, is apparently ineapable of improvement. For beauty of tone, efficiency and simplicity of operation, low initial cost and low upkeep, it is the last word in the development of what is the greatest gift of modern science to mankind. Of