RECEPTIONIST

Radio Record, 3 June 1938, Page 23

RECEPTIONIST

WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW FROM 4ZB "TAKING one consideration with another," a receptionist’s life at Radio 4ZB is one of varied experience. One seldom hears them on the air, nor does one see their photographs in the favourite radic weekly. . Station 4ZB Is proud of its reception: ists, and it has reason to be. In these days of tadio-conseiousness, people Just naturally tura to the telephone und to 44B. "Could you tell us ihe time, please?" "When, and from where. does the bus leave?’ "What was the final score in the last MEngland-Austra-lia erieket Test in 1932?" One lady wanted advice as to a good place to go picnicking in winter, another asked to be directed to the home of Dunedin's quadruplets, "and could you please tell me when they are most likely to be at home, as T wouldn't like to walk all the way up the hill for nothing?" Another seeker after information demanded, ‘The date of Easter, 1940, and hurry, please." In addition to knowing all these things and more, relating to the outside world and its events, a receptionist must he fully acquainted witb every detail of station working, from advertising rates and broadcasting schedwes to the most intricate of technical details, for the hundreds of visitors Who are shown over the station are avid for information,