Radio Pioneer Through On Monterey

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 5

Radio Pioneer Through On Monterey

QNE of Australia’s real radio pioneers, Mr. Oswald Anderson, who has occupied an important position in London for the past three years, was a through passenger by the last trip of the Monterey bound from America to Sydney. He stepped ashore at Auckland and, in an interview at 1ZB, spoke interestingly on various radio topics. For years he was station director of 2UW, Sydney. He was engaged x

in Australian radio when it was in its infancy-in the days when an ordinary telephone’ receiver in 2 wooden bowl was used as a microphone. Mention of the great advantages of having a national and a commercial radio system, as was the case in Australia and New Zealand, was made by Mr. Anderson.