Postmaster-General Announces New Broadcasting Board

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 40, 12 April 1935, Page 6

Postmaster-General Announces New Broadcasting Board

‘HE personnel of the new New Zealand Broadcasting Board was announced by the Postmaster-General (Hon. Adam Hamilton) at the end of last week. The appointees are:H. D. Vickery (chairman), Wellington. , G. R. Hutehinson, Auckland. Dr. S. K. Phillips, Auckland. W. H. Cocker, Auckland. H. G. Livingstone, Christchurch. J. L. Passmore, Dunedin. E. Palliser, Wellington. The Minister said that, in his opinion, the board as now constituted was a well-balanced representation of the various views of the public in regard to broadcasting. The business elements which, of course, should not be neglected in an enterprise disbursing an appreciable amount of money, had received proper attention in the selec- ~ tion of the board. Moreover, the board could be expected fo bring active influence upon the service of brodd-.-casting from a cultural, educational and entertainment point of view. Lis-. teners would have little to fear that the service would not be well and efficiently conducted under the new board. Mr. H, D. Vickery, who. is’ wellknown in Wellington -business--circles, has been chairman of the Broadcasting . Board since its inception. on January . 1, 1982. He has been closely identified with the development of broadcasting in New Zealand since that! time, and his business acumen and farsightedness have been of inestimable'value to the board. Mr. G. R. Hutchinson, O.B.B., has been interested in local body. affairs in Auckland for a considerable time, and, like Mr. Vickery, he has. been a member of the Broadcasting Board. since its inception three years ago. Mr. Ernest Palliser, whois a Fellow of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, has been actively interested

in the cultural life of Wellington for many years. At the present time Mr. Palliser is president of the New Zealand Bands Association, the largest organised body of musicians in the Dominion, with 85 affiliated bands. He was one of the founders of the Wellington Musical and Wlocutionary Competitions Society, is a past president of the society, and is still a member of the Executive Council. With Mr. Leon de Mauny, Mr. Palliser founded the Wellington Symphony Orchestra, and was the first citizen to make a valuable contribution to the orchestra in the form of a symphonic work never previously performed in the Dominion. This donation was, at the time, made anonymously. He was also one of the founders of the community . singing movement, and has been chairman of — the Wellington committee since its inception. For’ six : years Mr. Palliser has. acted as chairman of the Musical and Dramatie Advisory Committee associated in an honorary capacity with 2YA. As a member of the executive of ‘the Wellington Automobile ‘Club, Mr. Palliser has represented: hig club on the committee. of -the North Island: Motor Union... * ‘Dr. Se Kenneth’ Phillips, A.R:C.M., of Auckland, is ‘the only Doctor of ‘Music ‘of the University of New Zealand, .gaining his doctorate in 1926. After gaining his Mus.Bac, degree in1908, Dr. Phillips went Home to study: at the Royal Academy of Music in Lon- . don, gaining three medals, a Licentiate (L.R.A.M.), and, after 18 months, having conferred on him an Associateship (A.R.C.M.) for distinguished studentship. His masters in England were DHdward Iles, Randegger and White (singing), Claude Pollard and Frederick Moore (piano), Richard ‘Temple (diction), Dr. Huntly, Meyrick Roberts and Ernest Read (organ), and Dr. Kitson and Stewart Macpherson (composition). From London Dr. Phillips

travelled to Italy, where he studied under V, Sabatini (John McCormack’s master and father of Rafael Sabatini, the novelist) and Ricci-Sabatelli, pupil of Lamperti, the last of the great Italian singing teachers. Later. he went on to Berlin, where he studied with Otto Bake, and to Paris, where his master was Georges Lantelme. Upon his return to New Zealand in 1913, Dr. Phillips became an examiner in music at Auckland University, which position he occupied for some 15 years. During that time the war intervened, and Dr. Phillips saw considerable service in France. He underwent a further course of study in London from 1924 to 1927. At the present time he is president of the Auckland Society of Musicians, and a member of the Music Teachers’ Registration Board, formed under the Musie Teachers’ Act of 1928, and has, for many ‘years, been organist and choirmaster at All Saints’ Church, Auckland: For two years Dr. Phillips was on the. advisory committee of the New Zealand Radio Broadcasting. Company. _Mr.. J, L, Passmore, who is appointed.as a listeners’ representative, has been closely associated with radio de 4 velopment in Dunedin for ‘many years He has also made.a Close: study of\. music. Among: other qualifications. held by. him is. that. of Associate of.the London College of Music.’ He is a wellknown business man in Dunedin. In a note to the "Radio Record," Mr. Passmore said: "I fully realise -the importance attached to the deliberations of a body such as the Broadcasting Board, and enter upon this work with a full sense of the responsibilities attached thereto. I appreciate the confidence which has been placed in me, and can assure listeners and others, that my one object shall be to earry on the good work already achieved, and, wherever opportunity offers, to advance broad(Continued on Page 8.)

(Continued from’ Page: 6.) casting. for the benefit of all concerned." . Mr. W. H. Cocker, B.A., LL.B., is in business.as.a manager of a well-known firm of barristers and solicitors} in Auckland. He is a member of; the Auckland University College Council, and algo of the Council of the Law Society. He served in the New Zealand Wxpeditionary Force,:and is interested in broadcasting from a-cultural aspect. Mr. H. G. Livingstone, J.P., is-a wellknown businéss man of Christchurch, who-has been interested in local and sporting bodies in Canterbury for mally years. He has also been: prominent as a territorial officer (Canterbury -Yeomanry). "°