2ZB Announcer Receives Painful Injury

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 34, 3 February 1939, Page 39

2ZB Announcer Receives Painful Injury

N loan to the Government Tourist and Publicity Department, Bob Pollard, 2ZB announcer, has returned to Wellington rather the worse for the change. He had been playing the leading role in the first nortion ef the Centennial film, now heing made in the Tauranga district, which deals with the trials of a young Bnegtish pioneering family. Story has it that they were threatened with death by the Maoris. The young Englishman, riding bareback on a galloping horse, makes a wild dash for freedom, With an infant in front of him. Mr. Pollard, however, was crowded under the low aver hanging branches of a_ tree, which swept him heavily tnto the road, after which, according toa a facetious spectator, "the horse got up and slowly walked away." Mr. Pollard managed to save the infant, but sustained a painful fracture of the hones of the left hand, which will keep him under medical attention for some time. Other members of the staff of 2ZB associated with the production are

Bryan O’Brien, who plays the part ot Wakefield, and Michael Forlong.