Australian Broadcasting Commission

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 42, 28 April 1933, Page 23

Australian Broadcasting Commission

New General Manager N AJOR W. T., CONDER, who has been appointed general manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in succession to the late Mr. H. P. Williams, will receive a salary of £2000 a year, the same as that received by Mr. Williams, In announcing the appointment, the chairman. of the Broadcasting Commisxion (Myr. Charles Lloyd Jones). saiti that Major Conder had a wide knowledge of broadcasting administration, He was an Australian with an intimate nequaintance of all things Australian, and he had a knowledge of international affairs. Major Conder was born in Tasmania. He served in the early stages of- the Great War with the Australigu~ Imperial Forces on Gallipoli as a Meutenant, and he was invalided honie severe-. ly wounded. He was appointed adjutant of the Langwarrin military camp, and shortly afterward he was appointed to the command of the camp. Later he was appointed governor of Penridge gaol, and. then in-spector-general of prisons. He resigned that appointment to become executive director of J, CG. Williamson Ltd., and when J. C. Williamson Ltd, became interested in wireless broadcasting he was appointed managing director of the Broadcasting Company of Australia Ltd., and subsequently of Dominion Broadcasting Co. Ltd. After the Federal Government assumed control of the broadcasting stations, Major Conder remained with J, C. Williamson Ltd. for some time. In October last he was appointed organiser of the Melbourne centenary celebrations. For some time he has been president of the Victorign Amateur Boxing and Wrestling Association, and he is the mainiand representative of the Tas. manian Amateur Football League.