SPOTS OF INTEREST ON BOARD

Serial Waves, Volume 1, Issue 7, 10 September 1940, Page 1

SPOTS OF INTEREST ON BOARD

The Broadcasting Unit By

Situated in a particular Choice position, outside the Ship’s Orderly Room where the eagle eye of authority can watch us night and day, stands that'model of modern architecture, 11 The Broadcasting Unit,

If we have done nothing else on board, we of the broadcasting service feel that we have done a certain amount by giving the troops plenty, to talk about 0 Occasionally, when arc writing or quietly working inside our recording unit, we hear odd comments floating in from, the troops outside •

One corporal is convinced that we have nothing to do with broadcasting or recording ,He once saw a piecart in Auckland which was similar in appearance, so we arc without doubt a perambulating piecart to tickle the jaded appetites of the boys

overseas

Another has the idea that the broadcasting side of our work is pure bluff ,He is certain that ours is a luxurious caravan, and that wo ourselves are merely glorified tourists with a tremendous political pull «

But to get down to brass tacks, it might be as well to take this chance of let sing everyone on board know something of what we hope to ao ,

First of all, our name is somewhat misleading in that we will noc be broadcasting in the accented sense of the term , Primarily wo are a recording unit, designed for the express" purpose of making permanent recordings of every possible'phase of life on board this Transport, and, what is more important,overseas 0

On our arrival at our destination - ??? (and if any of you know where that will be we wish you would tell us ), we will be attached to base , From, there we hope to be -permitted to attach ourselves for several days at a time to individual units ©During ithe time we live with your different sections, we will constantly be making recordings telling N Z how you work, how you live, how you play, and what you do , Should we be with;fijny unit when it goes into action, as complete a description as possible will be recorded in the field, and. this news will ultimately be heard over every broadcasting station in N Z •

Actually, arrangements have been ma.de for every National and Commercial Station to give the fullest publicity to recordings sent home , In yourarmy life you will constantly come up against all sorts of. difficulties in connection with your .job O We anticipate quite.a few headaches ourselves, particularly in the matter of getting our news back to N Z in the very shortest time ,

If we happen to he working near a powerful radio station, our troubles will be few, ‘because once our recorded commentaries arc passed by Army Censor, it will be only a matter of a few seconds before our story is received in N Z and recorded there., But our difficulties will arise when wo have some really first rate up .o the minute material to send home, and we find ourselves maybe hundreds of miles away from any radio station , However, we will have to meet that when it comes, .butwe do feel .hat by tolling the folks at homo how you are getting on, and by occasionally pu..ing individual troops on the air to send their personal messages to their families, so that wo will have been able to shorten the thousands of miles that separate us from our homes , . ¥¥V ❖ ¥ ¥

" How nice your moustache looks Mac " " Yes most of the lads are growing them ” But tell me, how do they got that silly smoothness? Aho* use MASS A GENE A Mo’s greatest friend . (advt) »