NOTES and NEWS from the NORTH

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 44, 15 May 1931, Page 38

NOTES and NEWS from the NORTH

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[@ seems possible that station 1ZR will also be giving Saturday afternoon football relays, it being reported that the station is negotiating with the Rugby League for permission to relay descriptions of the matches played at Carlaw Park during the season. * cd * QUEEN STREET chemist, whose novel ideas are the causé of a large number of window-gazers, is now assuring Aucklanders that the secret of perfect health is to "earth" oneself in similar fashion to a radio set. He displays a dummy leg to explain how this is easily done. A wire is attached just above the knee and runs down

the inside of the leg to a little metal plate on the sole of the shoe. Possibly an excellent idea, but hardly comfortable enough to be likely to prove popular. e 3 . THE Amateur Transmitters’ Association have been allocated a stall in a first-class position at the coming Auckland Radio Exhibition, and intend to feature a most interesting exhibit. A transmitting station will be installed and messages sent off from visitors to friends in all parts of ‘the world. * * * A QUESTION which has been arousing wide, interest in Auckland lately is whether the Auckland Rugby Union will permit the broadcasting of of descriptions of its matches from Eden Park. The management committee of the Rugby Union met on May 6 and had a long discussion on the question, eventually deciding to grant permission for broadcasting on May 9, the position to be revised thereafter week by week. The discussion was taken in committee after hearing a statement from the Auckland representative of the Radio Broadcasting Company. Although this decision is indefinite, it is at least promising, and with any luck it looks as if Auckland lis- teners will not be denied this popular Saturday afternoon feature after all. In the event of permission for the

Rugby broadcasts being rescinded, it/ is believed that 1¥A will be able. t provide a substitute. 4 * 1 HE Auckland Radio Exhibition will be opened in the Town Hall at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, and will be open from 10.30 a.m. until 10.30 p.m. on the three following days. Considerable interest is being ®roused in the coming exhibition, and there promises to be plenty to interest those who visit it. The latest all-electric sets, which have just arrived in New Zealand, will be a feature of the exhibition. Visitors will also have a chance of actually seeing how broadcast programmes are conducted, as IYA will have a model studio on the stage from which the evening programmes will be relayed. J