NO VENTILATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 8

NO VENTILATION.

" DANGEROUS TO HEALTH." MEDICAL OFFICER'S VIEWS. "Certain part<s of the premises occupied hy station IZB are danireroits to health and unfit for occupation," said Dr. T. .1. Hiifrlics, medical officer of liealth in Auckland, amplifying and explaining the reference hy the of Broadcastinjr, the Hon. F. Jojioh., to a. complaint made hy the Department of Health to the station's present quarters.

"1 consider that the promises are unsuitable for the purpose for which they are being used," Dr. Hughes added. "I refer particularly to ventilation, of which there is none whatever. Three of the rooms are particularly bad, and one of them at times has to accommodate between fiO and SO persons. In this room, conditions must be intolerable with summer coming on."

His first representation!* in the matter, he said, were made to the owners of the building, Messrs. Davis Properties, Limited, in January of this year. As they considered that the complaint was one for the tenants, he approached the Controller of the National Commercial Broadcasting Service, Mr. C. (!. »Scrimgeour. Mr. Scrimgeour took the matter up with the Government, and as far as Dr. Hughes knew, the projected new building was the outcome.

The peculiar nature of broadcasting work aggravated the position. Dr. Hughes explained. To open windows meant that the noise of traffic passing in the street was broadcast all over New Zealand a.s well as the particular item intended, while if windows remained shut and electric fans, were used the fans interfered with the broadcast.