Advisory Committee

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 36, 18 March 1932, Page 11

Advisory Committee

Two Days’ Meeting [TH first meeting of the Advisory | ‘Council appointed to make recom- — mendations to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, met at the Board’s office on the 10th instant, and concluded its sessions on the following day. Mr. J. H. Owen, of Wellington, ‘was appointed Chairman of the Council, Mr. H. D. Vickery, chairman of the Board, addressed the Council prior to its conference. The deliberations of the Council were necessarily in private, the whole field of broadcasting being fully discussed. It was indicated that in the opinion of the Council certain localities ’ were at present ill-served by the YA gtations; these districts being South-land-Stewart Island, Central Otago, . South Canterbury, West Coast, Nelson, ' Wairarapa, Napier-Hastings, Gisborne, _ Palmerston North, North Taranaki, . Waikato, Bay of Plenty-Rotorua. In this connection it was resolved, in view

of the certainty that a fully developed service depends on the expert report of the "Coverage’’ Commission set up to investigate and recommend, that the next step to be taken might advantageously be co-operation With existing stations in the following places: Invercargill, Greymouth, Masterton, Hastings, Gisborne, Palmerston North, New Plymouth and Hamilton. The Board was recommended to consider as soon as practicable cases not included in this list, as they have at present no stations, the possibility of meeting the position either by increasing the power of adjacent YA stations, by subsidising any station to be: privately established in the locality, or by other means: The Council thought that the policy of the Board should ultimately be to increase the power and coverage of the YA stations rather than to build numerous small stations. '

The Council considered that the ‘suppression of .serious radio interference should he the subject of Government regulation. in’ connection with the issue to listeners of ‘a questionnaire on pregramme preference, the Council expressed its approval of the effort te get an opinion directly expressed in this way. The Board was asked to consider the possibility of doing something for New Zealand by way of a’standard guide of pronounciation of -announcers not necessarily on the lines of "Broadcast English" issued by the British Broadeasting Corporation.