Valuers To Assess The B Stations

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 7, 28 August 1936, Page 23

Valuers To Assess The B Stations

Inventories Expected To Be Made This Week in Auckland — Great Link-up For Uncle Scrim’s Welcome-Home Meeting-Air-Pilot | McKillop Makes His Last Appearance at 1ZB.

At last the valuers are expected in Auckland this week to assess the worth. of the three B stations operating. Radio engineers from the Chief Post Office are already in Auckland to act on behalf of the National Broadcasting Service and to take inventories of the apparatus used at the different stations. They will also investigate activities of each station so that they can arrive at a basis of valuation of the listener service being rendered. FIFTEEN loudspeakers and six microphones as well as half-a-dozen telephones, and a staff of more than a dozen technicians, were required to instal and operate the comprehensive relay and public address system used in connection with the public welcome to the Rey. C. G, Scrimgeour in the Town Hall, Auckland, last Sunday, August 23. The preparatory work occupied almost a week, the technical staff of Jobns Limited, under the technical manager, Mr. George Hart, working in conjunction with the technicians from 1ZB. The function in the Town Hall and Civic Theatre on Sunday last was the biggest undertaking in the history of B station broadcasting in New Zealand. Everything went according to plan, and was a huge success, Much has been heard about the technicians, the artists and others, but little about the man responsible for the whole of the arrangements, This was Mr. Harry Bell, the secretary of the Friendly Road. He handled the thousand and one details in a masterly. way, and this no doubt made the difference between success and failure in such a big undertaking, FoR the last six years, Air-Pilot McKillop has been one of the most consisiently-featured spealers from 1ZB. A member of the Auckland Aero Club who has done much to help the elub, he has become Widely known for his talks on aviation. Generally and popularly known as "Mae," he sails this week to take up a business pesition in Sydney. After his final talk from 1ZB last Friday, the _ station thanked him on behalf of many hundreds of listening friends for his veluntary services rendered and wished him every success in his new undertakings. British-Israel MEMBERS of the Dunedin branch of ‘the British-Israel Association and many others who are interested in its teachings flocked to hear Dr. W. Pascoe Goard last week, when he gave two public addresses and also spoke at a luncheon in the Y.M,O0.A. rooms, but there were Many more who welcomed the service of the radio as their only means of hearing this. author and speaker. His first public talk in Burns Hall wag relayed by 4ZM, which devoted nearly two hours of its regular Tuesday night schedule to this broad-

cast, and it was. probably the fact that the visitor’s voice was thus made available to a much wider audience that resulted in the main Town Hall being filled the following night. Dr. Goard was also heard speaking from the 4ZM studio at 9.80 on his second morning in Dunedin, and from 4YA two hours later. Each broadcast talk was full of interest, and was on a different phase of the British Israel subject. Tales of India A¥EWAYS a place of interest, many tales have been told about the North-West Frontier of India, and the life of the British Army stationed there. Mr. Charles Collyns, yet a young man, who not long ago retired from the Imperial Army after completing six years’ service in India, has been felling some good and jnteresting stories concerning his experiences, from 1ZB. He holds listeners with details of adventures, and has a happy and humourous way of weaving intimate word pictures of the everyday life of the. professional soldier in India. He broadcasts from’ 1ZB every Friday evening af 8.33. Musical Carnival "THE secretary-organiser of the Great Northern WHisteddfod, Mr. MeLellan, in a 10-minute talk from 1ZB last week, made some pertinent remarks concerning the big vocal and musical carnival. Mention wag made of the task which confronted the adjudicators, especially where the standard of performance was generally high, and he pointed out that although the audience could perhaps not separate the best four or five, it rested with

the adjudicator to fine the best down to two. This, he said, was an unenviable job. He appealed to all competitors to show true British sportsmanship, and suggested, if they were winners, to accept victory with becoming modesty, and if losers, to be the first to congratuJate the winner. Entries for the Bisteddfod, which hag begun, are a record for Auckland. On Wednesday, September 2, 1YA is to broadcast on relay the demonstration concert on the final night.