Personnel of Advisory Council

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 35, 11 March 1932, Page 9

Personnel of Advisory Council

Biographies of Members

S announced last week, the Postmaster-General has appointed the Advisory Council of eight members to advise the Radio Board. The personnel of the committee, with brief biographies, is as follows: Auckland "THE Rey. A. B. Chappell, who was & former registrar of Auckland University College, is on the editorial staff of the "New Zealand Herald." He has been closely associated with broadcasting for many years, and was a member and chairman of the 1YA Musical and Dramatic Committee. The Rev. Ci{appell is well known from 1¥A, from which station he has given a weekly topical talk for some considerable time.

Articles from his pen have appeared in these columns in the past. Hamilton Me. J, 8. ANCHOR has been associated with the radio trade for many years, and is the owner of station 1ZH, Hamilton. About eight years ago he, together with a handful of local radio enthusiasts, started a club which numbered among its members Mr. J. Orbell, who went to the South with the Byrd Expedition, and Mr. J. Bingham, chief engineer to the Radio Board. As a member of the club Mr. Anchor learned the code under amg official from the P. and T.., for unless one was acquainted with that the chances of hearing anything were very small, "At that time," remarked Mr. Anchor. in conversation with the "Record," "our early experiments were with batteries and ‘Ford’ coils, when signals were sent out and received a few hundred yards away on a crystal detector. "Like all other radio clubs, we had our ups and downs. Sometimes all interest in the club would die away, and then a few fresh members would revive it again. "In those times our experimental stations broadeast on a 160 to 250metre wavelength, but with the advance of short-wave broadcasting a year or two later, we made many con-

tacts outside New Zealand. On looking up our log book I find in an entry four years ago, March, 1928, we worked

Japanese, Chinese and Brazilian stations all in one week. "About the middle of 1929 our local broadcasting station started operations on 585 metres, changing a few months later to 480 metres, its present wavelength. "Broadcasting has made rapid strides during the last few years, and I hope to see the time _ Wren: B stations are on the air daily ®:ving service in districts where the A stations are poorly received owing to distance gn‘, i geographical situation." aa. New Plymouth Me. T. T.. DAVIS has been an active member of the North ‘Taranaki Radio Society for practically its whoie existence, and is now in his second year as president. For nearly three years he has been (for the society) station director at 2YB, and has bee»

primarily responsible for its running and administration. He has always been keenly interested in questions affecting broadcasting -first from the listeners’ point of view and latterly, from the broadcasting end. Mr. Davis hopes that such experience as he has gathered may, in conjunction with that of the other members of the council, be of some use in dealing with the matters which they will be called upon to discuss. Palmerston North Me. Ww. A. WATERS, M.1LE.E.., AN.Z., Soc. C.E., chartered electrical engineer, is well known as chief engineer of the Manawatu-Oroua DPlectric Power Board, and has taken a keen interest in radio since broadcasting became an accomplished fact. He has held the position of president of the Manawatu Radio Club for many years, and designed and built the present broadcasting Station 2ZF, 11 Palmerston North. Mr. Waters is also a keen short-wavi listener, and some years ago acted a official listener for the General Hlectric Company of Schenectady on numerous tests of wave propagation in the early developments of short-waves. During a visit to the United States and Canada a few years ago, Mr. Waters visited many of the leading broadeasting stations of those coun-

tries, and at the headquarters of the General Hlectric Company at Schenectady, and he spent two weeks as & privileged guest of the company, investigating electrical matters, and all phases of broadcasting at their Radio Research Station. He has for some time past been keenly interested in the matter of signal strength of broadcasting stations, also noise level and radio interference, and has carried out investigations in the matter, particularly regafding interference from power lines. For some time past he has had the task as a member of the executive of the Power

Supply Authority Bngineers’ Association of investigating and tabulating the reports of all electric power supply engineers on this matter throughout New Zealand. As the active president of the Manawatu Radio Club, which has a membership of 600 members, he has had experience of all aspects of broadcasting, extending over a period of seven years, and will bring to the council table a thorough practical knowledge of radio broadcasting, Wellington Me. J. H. OWEN. was born and educated in Liverpool, and came to New Zealand in 1883, where he took up a position with Sharland and Co., Ltd. He attained the position of general manager, and now holds a seat on the board of directors. He is also a director of several other boards. He

is chairman of the Boy Scouts’ Com-mittee,-Seatoun, and president of the Neatoun Football Club. He was vicepresident of the Wellington Radio Society in 1924, and president in 1926, As president of the N.Z. Radio Listen ers’ League he took an active part in the advocacy of the system of board control for New Zealand, Mr. Owen has travelled extensively, and on two of his visits to London in 1926 and 1928, he saw much of the activity of the B.B.C. from Savoy Hill to Daventry. On his return he gave two talks from 2YA on "Broadcasting in Various Countries." He is much interested in music, Incidentally, he did a lot of solo work in oratorio and ballad singing for churches and charity. His acquaintance with the Canadian, United States, English and Continental broadcasting systems should prove of some service to the board. Christchurch R. C. R. RUSSHLL is one of the Dominion’s leading radio technieians. Educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch, he later attended City and Guilds College, London, the Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin, U.S.A., where he graduated M.Se He later ‘became an associate {Concluded on page 23.}

_. Advisory Council (Continued from page 9.) member of the Institute of Blectrical Engineers, and a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers. During the war he held a commission in the Royal Engineers, and later became a wireless officer in the Royal Flying Corps. ‘' He has been an engineer to NorthWestern Radio Mfg. Co., U.S.A., and

on the advisory staff of W.H.A. Since 1924 he has been in business in Christchurch as a civil electrical engineer. Ror some years he has been technica! correspondent to the Christchurch "Sun," and is at present a lecturer ‘uv the Christchurch Radio Society. Invercargill Me. ALFRED JONES attended the Southland Boys’ High School, and on leaving secured a position as junior in the Southland Building Society’s office, where he took up accountancy and commercial work. He was a member of the staff of the City Council till 1911, leaving to join the firm of W. A. 7. ee Ae

Ott and Co., Ltd., of which firm he later became a partner. He was one of ‘the foundation members of the Invercargill Stock- Exchange, and was chairman in 1925. He was an ex-mem-ber of the Southland Education Boaril, of which he was elected chairman. in 1929, and a member of the Southland High School Board of Governors, and Southland Technical College Board. He is also a life member and ex-chairman of the Southland Schools’ Committees’ Association, and was elected chairman . o£ the Southland School Committees’ Association in 1929, He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1924, and. at the formation of the Southland Justices of the Peace Association in July, 1928, was unanimously elected registrar. He matriculated about five years ago, and took up law studies, and pass-

ed in several subjects ut the New Zeuland University Examinations in lega! subjects. For the last two years Mr. Jones has been actively connected with local radio as chairman of the Southland Radio Club, Dunedin R, HAROLD BOOTH, accountant. of Dunedin, is a -prominent. business man, and well-known to most readers of the "Radio Record." He will. be more familiarly known as the organiser of the N.Z. Radio Listeners’ League, an ‘organisation founded by him in 1980 to further the interests of listeners generally. Mr. Booth has always been strongly of the opinion that radio broadcasting should be under the control of listeners, or at least they should have some say in its operations. The league which Mr.

Booth founded and has organised ir the four principal cities of New Zea land, has a nominal membership ©: over 3000.