Broadcasting a Show

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 23, 20 December 1929, Page 8

Broadcasting a Show

4YA Relays from Invercargill. "THE outstanding success of the Royal Show held in Invercargill last week exceeded the most sanguine expectations. The show ‘took place.on December 10, 11 and 12 and broadcasts on relay were carried out each: afternoon by 4YA. These were,very suc-. cessful. The Broadcasting .Company was represented by Mr. J. Ball, editorannouncer, and everything was carried through without a hitch. , As well as the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, speakers who broadcast were:-The Hon. G. W. Forbes, the Hon. P. A. de la Perelle, Mr. J. D. Campbell (Mayor of Invercargill), Mr. W. Perry (president of the Royal Show Society), Mr. G. Troup (Mayor of Wellington), Mr. Marshall (member of the Agricultural Board), Mr. F. Mills (judge of Ayrshires), Mr. Arthur Greenhalgh . (side-show . proprietor), Mr. A. W. Green (judge of milking shorthorns), Mr. J. P. Kalaugher (secretary of the New Zealand Friesian Association), Mr. A. Reid (judge of Aberdeen Angus), Mr. HE. Short, of Feilding (judge of Romneys), Mr. John Gilkison, Mr. Adam Hamilton, M.P., and Mr. J. Price (president of the Southland A. and P. Association). Mr. G. H. Holford, late asso- ‘ ciate-editor of the "New Zealand Dairy Farmer," broadcast. a description of the grand parade. ot Bayes

In the course of his address, .Mr. Price referred to the broadcasting which had taken place. *° Hé: said :- "Tt has been suggested: to me that. it would be fitting that I, as president of the Southland A. and P. Association, should, on the occasion of this, the last broadcast in connection with the Royal Show, address a few. words especially to the listeners over the air ~It affords me very great pleasure’to fall in with that suggestion. Indeed,: I esteem it a privilege to be enabled to get into personal touch, ‘as ‘it were, with those ‘interested folk .who: have had perforce of circumstances to« be content to hear about, instead of seeing for themselves, the show which is. now nearing its conclusion. It-is, I think you will agree, one of the wonders of. the wonderful age in which are living that distance no longer prevents, us from hearing about that, which we cannot see, and that radid-makes it possible for us to participate in: functions which we cannot attend. I feel sure that many to whom I am now speaking would not have missed... this truly Royal Show had it, been possible for them to be present." , In concluding, hessaid:-‘And now it remains for me to express my asso--ication’s warm appreciation of the courtesy and enterprise of the Broad--easting Company in sending’its representative to Invercargill for the purpose of putting the ghow on the air.

* . This is not. the first occasion on which the Broadcasting Company has gone out of its way to make Invercargill and Southland figure becomingly on the map of New Zealand. We entertain, as I am sure do many listeners,, pleasant recollections of this year’s May Fair broad¢ast. The request of the Southland League that the Royal Show might be broadcast met with a ready response from Mr. A. R. Harris, general manager of the Broadcasting Company, and I desire to. assure him that the‘ result of his enterprise: has ‘been highly gratifying to uss "Just here. I should like to say. that the first day’s broadcast, through a "purely personal incident, served to bring forcibly to my notice the boon which radio is providing to the aged and infirm, and all who from one cause or another are confined to their homes, My mother, who, unfortunately, was not able to attend the show, listened in to the broadeast of the opening ceremony, and that evening assured me that her wireless had enabled her to follow the proceedings from _ beginning to end, and that she had not missed a word of any of the speeches, and. that my own voice had come through to her as clearly as if I had been-in her room when speaking. I rather fancy she is listening to me now, and if the regulations did not forbid I should like to send her a ‘cheerio’ message. But I must not transgress further. With a full sense of the splendid service radio is rendering to all classes of the community, I again tender to the Broadcasting Company the thanks of the Southland A. and P. Association, and I think I may add the thanks of thé people of Southland and

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