TELEVISION IN NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 9

TELEVISION IN NEW ZEALAND

STUDY OF PROBLEMS FOR RADIO TRANSMITTERS

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 11

A special committee to investigate the problems likely to be encountered by amateur radio transmitters when television transmissions begin in New Zealand has been set up by the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters.

The decision to form the committee was made at the annual meeting of the association in Wellington. It will consist of Messrs D. Gorman, C. G. Leddell, and L. R. W. Andre.

Speaking about television in New Zealand, the Chief Engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr E. H. R. Green) told members that they could look forward to an era where there would be great activity on the television front. “When the time comes for the introduction of television in this country, the situation will be handled more easily than it was in England and America,” Mr Green said.

The languages approved for use in television were English, Maori, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch, he said. This would make it difficult from a monitoring point of view, but the Minister was keen to satisfy genuine cases where it would be a hardship for a man not to be able to use a language he knew.

Mr Green said it was believed that the use of these languages would serve to make New Zealanders “languageminded.”