RADIO SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25293, 29 August 1945, Page 8

RADIO SERVICE

£435,800 IN FEES

THE YEAR'S OPERATIONS (S.R.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Radio licence fees > collected during the year ended March 31 last amounted to £435,813; States the annual report of the National Broadcasting Service, which was presented in the House of Representatives today. Receipts from sales and advertising in the New Zealand Listener totalled £39,625 and revenue by way of interest amounted to £21,695. A further £170,000 was invested during the year to provide for future development and to overtake arrears of construction and equipment which .had been held up owing to war conditions, making a total of £J,S/U,UUU now invested for this purpose. . The section of the report dealing with the activities of the commercial stations states that time sales for the year reached a new peak, amounting to over £274,000. This was an increase of more than £16,000 over the previous years operations. The report states that listeners were supplied vvjth regular and frequent broadcasts of news commentaries and talks relating to the war, recorded messages from servicemen overseas arid other special programmes. The time available for normal programmes for music and entertainment was still curtailed, but the standard was maintained by the use of the best local performers and the best recorded material from overseas. , Dealing with overseas the report states that when the New Zealand forces left New Caledonia equipment which had been installed at radio Noumea was donated to the French authorities by the New Zealand Government as a mark of appreciation for the unfailing assistance rendered to the New Zealand forces. A new half-hour programme to the Pacific was instituted last February, consisting of news and musical items recorded in the four main centres. Referring to the development of New Zealand talent, the report adds that these artists attained a reasonable standard of performance. As soon . adequate material was available the supply of recordings would be increased. CANCER CAMPAIGN GOOD WORK AT CLINICB AN ENCOURAGING REPORT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday No country paid more attention to cancer investigation than New Zealand, and the latest forms of# treatment were available here, said Sir James Elliott, who presided at the annual meeting of the. Cancer Campaign Society. It was encouraging that the. public were contributing liberally to the fun3s of the society, he added.'The clinics in the four centres were supervising hundreds of cases a year and a vast amount of work was done by the medical staffs. The percentage of five-year cures was still increasing. An outstanding feature was th,in prostate gland eases, with new treatment, a high proportion of patients apparently got well, Sir James was re-elected president and Sir Hugh Acland and Sir Louis Barnett were re-elected vice-presidents, EVACUEE BOYS FAREWELL AT HAMILTON (0.G.) HAMILTON, Tuesday • Among those who gathered on the Hamilton railway station to bid farewell to three evacuee boys who left on the first stage of their journey home today, were Mrs Hilda Ross. M.P. for Hamilton, Mr R. H. Donaldson, district welfare officer, and Mr W. H. Paul. One boy, B. Burch, is returning to Essex, and the others, J. C. Andrews and R. Gjlmour, to ScotlandBurch and Gilmour have declared their intention of returning to New Zealand at the first opportunity. The lad, Andrews, who is now 1,6, came from Hamilton, -Scotland. He is taking'back greetings from the Mayor, Mr H. D. Caro, and citizens of Hamilton, New Zealand, to its Scottish namesake. He carries an album of 30 full-plate photographs of Hamilton and its environs. In it is a message from the Mayor. CHRISTIAN ORDER CONFERENCE OPENED (P.A.) jCHRtSTCHURCH, Tuesday The opening sessions of the conference on Christian Order, sponsored by the National Council of Churches of New Zealand, was held today at Christchurch. About 200 delegates from the eight constitutent churches of the council are attending the conferences, visitors to which include the Bishop of Armidale, the Rt. Rev. J. S. Moves, three senior chaplains of the United States forces in the Pacific, Dr Surjip Singh, of India, and representatives of the Maori race, led by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev'. F. Bennett, The proceedings opened with a service at Christ's College chapel, after which the delegates broke up into fiye groups to discuss reports on various subjects. OBITUARY MR. WILLIAM p. CURTIS The death lias occurred at Onehunga o| Mr Wjlliain Clarke Curtis, a, veteran of the South African war, at the age of 66, Born at Grimsby, England, he came to New Zealand as a child in the ship Ashmore. He was the fourth son of the late Mr and Mrs J. Curtis, of Devon port. In his early days in New Zealand he took up farming in Tar&naki, but later entered the building trade in Auckland as a contractor. He served in both the Boer War and the last war. Mr Curtis was a keen bowler, being a member of the Onehunga and Returned Services Association Clubs. He took >.a prominent part in Masonic activities. He is survived by his wife and one daughter. POSTMASTER PROMOTED (0.C.) ROTORUA, Tuesday The postmaster at Rotorua, Mr R. W. Cardno, has been appointed to the position of chief postmaster at Thames. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (O.O.) HAMILTON, Tuesday Appreciation of the work completed by the retiring president, Mr O. Sven--Bon, during his term of office, was expressed at the annual meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce this evening, There was a fair attendance. The following officers were elected:—President Mr J. D. Edgecombe; vice-president, Mr W, S, Morrison; council, Messrs 0, Svenson, S. V Vale. M. N. Wallace. T. J. Shaw. C. B. Prak. R. L. »McCheoe. R. Dixon, A. J. Yen dell, A.'M. Bisley, J A. Willlden E. Hooper. J. A. Home. H. J. Hill M. F Fly tin and J, T. Butler. SHOW ASSOCIATION (0.C.) CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday A profit of £l2O for the year was disclosed at the annual meeting of the Waikato Central Agricultural Association. Mr W. C. Wallace was reelected president, and Mr C, V. Duignan, a returned serviceman, was appointed secretary to succeed Mr E, James, who is retiring for health reasons after occupying the position for 19 years. The Royal Show Society advised that the next regular show dates for Cambridge would be March 8 and 9. 1916 < !