Under "Red Tape" Control

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 51, 3 July 1931, Page 9

Under "Red Tape" Control

be ee eee eel Broadcasting of the Future (fo the Editor.) "XHIS is Station SYA, commencing the children’s session. Birthday calls. Tommy Jones, of Wellington, we wish you many happy returns of your tenth birthday. We cannot tell you where your parcel is, because it was not delivered through the official channel. Bobby Brown, of Auckland, we cannot give you birthday greetings because your birth certificate did. not accompany the blue form your mother filled in at the office. "We regret that we cannot call Jack Johnson as the required stamp duty was not affixed to the green form. Lily White, of Dunedin, will be called as soon as the necessary declaration is received from her guardian or one of her parents, if alive. All applications for birthday calls must. be posted by prepaid post, not less than one calendar month before the date of the desired eall. "We regret that a number of calls for to-night have to be omitted as they were received only three weeks ago. Parents and guardians are referred to. volume IV of Regulations, Broadcasting, Rules for- Birthday Calls, clause 108 {a). That concludes... ."