New "Service" Session For Motorists

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 27, 16 December 1938, Page 4

New "Service" Session For Motorists

"HIGHWAY Happiness," a "sere vice" session _ broadcast nationally: by the NCBS, is proving very popular with motorists. The value of such a service has — been demonstrated from time to time by individual stations, notably at 3ZB, Christchurch, last Easter, when that station co-cperated with A.A. offices, county council engineers and post offices throughout the whole of the South Island, and broadcast regular and reliable reports of road conditions following flooding. Several hundred appreciatory telephone calls were received by 3ZB, and similar broadcasts were afterwards made at regular intervals. The new session, which is heard from all ‘ZB stations at10 p.m. on Fridays, has the @ii... thusiastic support of automobile associations and traffic authorities. It is concerned principally with weather and weekend road conditions, suggestions for week-end tours, hints for campers, advice regarding care and maintenance of automobiles and all matters of interest to motorists. " The Transport Department is taking an especial interest in the session, and clready officers of the department have given short talks to listeners. Considerable emphasis is naturally being placed o2 road safety, advice being given regarding dangerous sections of road, and general accident prevention.