RADIO PLANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 11

RADIO PLANS.

EXPERTS TO ACT. RESEARCH COMMITTEE IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES. BROADCASTING AND AVIATION (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) j WELLINGTON, this day. ! The establishment of a radio research , committee has been announced by the Hon. D. <!. Sullivan. Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research. It will operate in association with the Research Council of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The personnel is as follows: Professor J. Shelley, Director of Broadcasting, chairman'; Professor. P. H. Burbidge, professor of physics, Auckland University College; Professor F. W. (i. White, professor of physics. Canterbury College; Professor R. Jack, professor of physics, Otago University; and one representative from each of the Departments of Defence, Post and Telegraph and Scientific and Industrial Research. The committee will have as its main objectives the co-ordination of the radio research activities of the broadcasting. post and telegraph and defeJiee services, and aviation, and of the university colleges. The establishment of liaison with radio research organisations in other parts of the Empire, and particularly with the Australian Radio Research Board, so that research in the southern hemisphere can be- carried out in the most profitable way, is also an important aim. A further purpose will be to develop radio research in New Zealand in its scientific aspects, with special reference to local geographical and meteorological factors and to the problem of adequate broadcasting coverage.