Some Leg-pulling In Nelson

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 12

Some Leg-pulling In Nelson

City Council Meeting and a "Broadcast" ITY councillors in Nelson sat up and took notice at their meeting last week when a man, well-known as an announcer, arrived in the council chamber with radio apparatus and a_microphone. Councillors brushed up their repartee and there were some notable efforts at speechmaking. When the minutes had been read Cr. H. E. A. Washbourn asked the Mayor (Mr. W. J. Moffatt) if the council was on the air that evening. The Mayor replied that apparently it was. But there was one councillor who rather wanted to hear the council as others were hearing it, so he slipped round to: his home. What was his surprise when he twiddled the dials to hear, instead of pearls of wisdom from the council chamber, the bright warblings of Gladys Moncrieff. Investigation proved that the "broadcast’" was a hoax, the wire "connections" merely being draped out the window and trailing on the footpath outside! Some of the councillors went home still under the impression that they had been on the air but the Mayor and one or two others "knew that some leg-pulling had been going on.