BROADCASTS TO PACIFIC

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24632, 31 July 1945, Page 6

BROADCASTS TO PACIFIC

♦- NEW EQUIPMENT TO BE INSTALLED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 30. An important advance in shortwave broadcasting to the New Zealand Forces in the Pacific will be made possible when transmitters of considerably higher power than those now in use are installed. The PostmasterGeneral (the Hon. F. Jones) said that two 7J k.w. short-wave transmitters ordered some time ago for a Govern-, ment department for transmitting stations were now being delivered, and as the war situation had materially changed, the purpose for which they were ordered no longer existed. The new transmitters had, therefore, been made available to the National Broadcasting Service and they would be installed at Titahi Bay to provide a broadcasting service to the New Zealand Forces in the Pacific and the peoples of New Zealand dependencies in the Pacific. They had been receiving news bulletins between 9 and 9.30 p.m. daily, but it was intended to provide a complete evening programme when more powerful' transmitters could be used. A special aerial system has to be erected at Titahi Bay, and it will probably be several months before the improved service can be inaugurated. BRITISH ELECTIONS —-♦ MR CLYDE CARR’S COMMENT Commenting on the result of the General Election in Britain, Mr Clyde Carr, M.P. for Timaru, said that in his opinion the decision of the people of Britain had saved the Empire and the world from the early possibility, at least, of World War 111. There was every possibility that Britain and America, as capitalistic Powers, would have aligned against the Socialist Government of Russia and her supporters had the Conservative Party been re-elected, he said. The result of the British election would provide a Government that would co-operate on the friendliest possible terms with the U.S.S.H., on the one side, and the U.S.A. on the other. The British Labour Government would act as a liaison between west and east and would serve as intermediary between two conflicting ideologies. There should now be a long period of international understanding and co-operation with a prolonged period of peace and prosperity, he concluded.