HE WAS ANNOYED

Radio Record, 19 August 1938, Page 32

HE WAS ANNOYED

A TASMANIAN dairy farmer has a grievance against 1YA, simply because the station failed to broadcast the 7 o’clock chimes on. a recent morning. This was due to a mechanical fault, and, although it was the first time ever that the familiar chimes were not sounded, the dairy farmer living at Launceston noticed their absence. In fact, he was annoyed. Apparently he uses the station as a timepiece and proceeds to milk the cows as soon as he hears the chimes-at 5.30 a.m., Tasmanian time, He wrote a letter to the director of 1YA complaining that the chimes were not broadcast on that particular morning, and added that he went on reading after an early breakfast waiting for those chimes. "But they did not come through and | was nearly an hour late going out to do the milking!’ he said. 1YA will have to be careful in future!