TIMARU RADIO STATION
TRANSMITTER MAY BE READY BEFORE END OF YEAR According io advice received by Mr Clyde Carr, M.P., from the Minister of Broadcasting (Mr F. Jones), Station 3XC, Timaru, will be on the air toward the end of this year, if work goes according to schedule. The renovation and alteration of the Timaru Gas Company’s buildings to provide studios and offices are proceeding satisfactorily, and the Public Works Department estimate that the broadcasting service will take over from the contractors toward the end of the year. Mr Jones advised that the contract had been let for the erection of a transmitter building at Washdyke. As soon as this is completed the 2 k.w. transmitter already in Timaru would be installed. He said that the steel mast for the station would be ready for shipment from Australia at the end of September. In the event of the station being ready to operate, but the delivery mast held up through transport* difficulties, broadcasting would commence with a temporary aerial, he said, » , .
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25550, 19 July 1948, Page 8
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