The G.M. Abroad

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 5, 15 August 1930, Page 29

The G.M. Abroad

Mr. Harris Visits America

Me: A. R, HARRIS, Managing Direc- ™ tor of the A. R. Harris Company, of Christchurch, and General Manager of the Radio Broadcasting Company is aboard the Makura returning to New Zealand from a visit to the United. States and Canada. The visit has been a business one and while in America he has looked extensively into mattefs of broadcasting, the result of Which will no doubt be reflected in the New Zealand service, aithough, as has been frequently stated, the Broadcasting Compary retains an expert consultant in the United States of America and is kept fully advised as to the trend of everything, technical and otherwise, in broadcasting in that country. This is not Mr. Harris’s first visir to America. He spent several years there and received an electrical train ing in the Edison Laboratory under the aegis of Mr. Thomas A, Hdison himself, and his associations of those days have been of material advantage to him on this hurried visit. Mr. Harris, who was in 4YA, Dunedin, studio on the epoch-making occasion of Read-Admiral Byrd’s two-way conversation with New York, was in New York to see the reception accord. ed the famous American. He was also present, by special invitation, when radio conversations, about which much publicity was given in America, were carried out between’ England, Germany and the United States. Hélison spoke from his library at West Orange The proceedings were of particular in-

terest to Mr. Harris, who says there was a small army of operators carrying out the transmission and the sound recording... . Mr. Harris also visited a large experimental station where British programmes are picked up for rebroadcasting purposes. Television claimed attention and he witnessed laboratory tests and experiments. Talkie-niak-ing studios have also been visited, and there seems to be nothing in the broad. casting entertainment line that Mr. Harris has not investigated with the view to applying to the New Zealand service. He has met and conferred with all the people prominent in fhe conduct of broadcasting services in U.S.A, and: Canada,