General Manager's First Radio Broadcast!

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 15, 20 October 1933, Page 15

General Manager's First Radio Broadcast!

[T took Station 2FC, of Sydney, to bring the general manager of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board (Mr. F. = nr 2 7 * FF oan |

me he SAMUS pee C. Hands) before the microphone-for the first time im Mis lye: Mr. Hands, who has been visiting Australia, spoke from the other side last weck and prefaced his talk by remarking that he felt like a bank manager who has not done any teller’s work for many a long day. He said that it was something of an eye-opener to discover that the Australian Broadcasting Commission was using sonicthing like 4000 miles of land lines to operate the national service. The fact that New Zealand and Australia lay comparatively close to each other would indicate that the time was coming when the izvo countries would be able to establish a closer yadio contact. New Zealanders, Mr. Hands continued, frequently listened in to Australian programmes, and he had discovered that many Australians listened to Dominion concerts. Mr. Hands concluded by thanking the commission for the courtesy it had extended to him in the Commonwealth, and expressed the hope that he would be * a ._ 7 fF Canaan th

able to similarly welcome to New Zealand Australian radio representatives in’ the near future.