PARADISE

Radio Record, 1 July 1938, Page 22

PARADISE

-FOR RADIO BACHELORS AT INVERCARGILL BELIEVING that environment and mental outlook react on’ ‘one another, the Director of Broad-_ casting Services, Professor J. Shel- | ley, has seen to it that good living quarters are provided for the four single men who will live under the shadow of the two 825ft. towers of station 4YZ, Invercargill. The masts and transmitting room, now nearing completion, are located . in open country at Dacre, about 16 miles from Invercargill on the main route to Dunedin. The modern house provided for these. men, who will do their . own cooking and house-cleaning, would de-. light the most fastidious of married couples. No State house. yet built compares with it for comfort, roominess and general appointments. The tone-colour kitchen, with its electric range and multitude of cup- . boards, has. nearby a dining alcove ‘with an outlook on-to the main Inver-cargill-Dunedin highway and the hills beyond. ' A large sunporch, with Whitney type’ of windows, leads off from the carpet-' ed sitting room, the furnishing and-° lighting of which is reminiscent of the best hotel lounges. Doors in figured rimu lead into the hall and entrance porch, and give access to three bedrooms, all of. which . are carpeted ‘to tone with the wallpapering. One of ‘the two huge masts for the station is already about 300 feet in the air. Another 30 feet of steel has to be added to this, and then construction of- the second mast will occupy another two or three weeks. Some little distance from the base of the masts the reinforced concrete | transmitting hall, with a floor space ° of 3000 feet, is nearing completion. It will include an emergency studio in ease of a breakdown at the main 4YZ studio at Invercargill.