Drama Of Radio Involved In Real Life Drama

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 34, 3 February 1939, Page 5

Drama Of Radio Involved In Real Life Drama

A DRAMA on the air may become one of the deciding factors in a drama of real life-when a certain case shortly comes before the Supreme Court in Auckland at the next sessions. During the hearing of a case in which a man was fast week charged with demanding from a woman £2 by menaces, and assault with intent to rob, a member of 1ZB’s staff, a transcription officer, was called into the witness box in the Police Court. He testified that the morning serial, "The House of Peter MacGregor" was broadcast from Station 1ZB every week morning at 10.30. The lady complainant said she was positive of the time of the alleged assault because earlier that morning she had checked her clock with 1ZB, when that station gave the time. Further, she said she ailways listened to the serial, "The House of Peter MacGregor," which started at 10.30 every morning. When the accused called on December 20, she looked at the clock which said 10.25. She was about to enter the front room to switch on to 1Z2B when she answered the knock at the door. Aware that the defence would set up an alibi when the case reached the Supreme Court, the police called the officer from 1ZB to prove that this serial started at 10.30. Accused, in an interview with detectives prior to his arrest on the evening of December 20, said he was in Queen Street that morning until 11 o’clock