Is There A Hoodoo On 3ZB'S Building?

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 27, 16 December 1938, Page 5

Is There A Hoodoo On 3ZB'S Building?

FELECTRICIAN working the other night on the new State Theatre. building, Christchurch, went along to the old burnt-out studios of $ZB, in Colombo Street, to borrow a ladder... His nostrils twitched. He smelled burning. He was right. A piece of rag, oil and turpentinesoaked, had been left on the floor after the day’s work. It smouldered. Half a draught of wind from .an open door would have set -the whole place ablaze again. A day or two before, somebody rebuilding 3ZB had trouble with a _ water-pipe, which broke and annointed the floors and a shoe store down below, Everybody calmed down ‘in the end only to remark, "This place is hoodoo." But the rebuilding plans are proceeding rapidly and in a few weeks 3ZB’s staff will be back in the lap of radio luxury.