Canadian Interest in N.Z.'s Part in Empire Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 1 March 1935, Page 51

Canadian Interest in N.Z.'s Part in Empire Broadcast

To the Editor. ° Sir,-I have had a letter from a friend in Canada asking me for some informrtion about the Wmpire broadcast on Christmas Day. Vhe relative part of his letter is as follows :- No doubt you listened to the Wmpire broadcast on Christmas Day, which, according to my calculations, was held about 2 a.m, N.Z summer time. We were supposed to have a scene from your country taken from a surf-bathing resort, also one from.a sheep ranch. There has been a lot of speculation here as to whether these scenes were actually u radio broadcast or whether they were reproductions from 4a record. It seems peculiar to us for people to be bathing and working on a sheep yanch at 2 or 3 a.m., though, of course, those scenes could have been specially planned to suit the time in other parts of the Umpire, Anything you may have heard from Canada was an actual broadeast, for it was between 9 and 10 a.m. "here. If you should happen to have any first-hand information of the Australasian part of the Bmpire broadcast I would be ‘glad if you would pass it along to me. I was away on holidays during Christmas and did not listen in to the Bmpire broadcast, and I really know very little about it. I would be very grateful if you could give me some information which I can forward on to my friend in Ctanada -T am. ate. .

SUBSCRIBER.

Taihape. [The broadcasts mentioned in the above fetter were Australia’s contributions to the Pmpire programme. New Zealand was represented by a whaler in the Tory Channel, a dairy farm in Taranaki, and q peal "from the Wellington carillon. These were sent to the B.B.C, headquarters in Engand by means of radio telephone, and it s possible that recordings of them were \nade ‘there. in case of a hitch occutring during the programme, Although we have no actual evidence available, it is almost certain that Australia’s part:of the broadcast would consist of special recordings. -Dd,