No Decision On Salary For Broadcasting Post

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 12

No Decision On Salary For Broadcasting Post

( N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, February 28.

The Minister of Broadcasting (Mr Kinsella) said tonight that Dr. F. J. Llewellyn would receive a combined remuneration as chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation and of the University Grants Committee, the amount to be subject to negotiation.

“The two members of the Corporation, Messrs J. A. Stenberg, of Auckland, and R. Harris, of Christchurch, will be paid a fee of 10 guineas a day for each day of regular and special meetings of the corporation or for travelling to and from these meetings. They will also draw travelling allowances in accordance with the regulations for statutory boards,” said Mr Kinsella.

Mr Kinsella said the daily fee for the two members might later be reviewed hnd honoraria might be substituted.

The Christchurch member of the Broadcasting Commission announced by the Minister of Broadcasting (Mr Kinsella), Mr Reeves Harris, has a family history connected with broadcasting which goes back to the beginnings of broadcasting in this country. He is the son of Mr A. R, Harris, who, with a Hamilton dairy farmer, Mr (later Sir) William Goodfellow, set up the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z., Ltd., which initiated the first radio programmes in New Zealand, Mr A R. Harris was a businessman in Christchurch. The newly-formed company began transmissions in Auckland in 1926, stations in Christchurch and Dunedin began soon afterwards and 11 months later Wellington completed the chain of main cities transmitting. Mr Reeves Harris was educated at Cathedral Grammar

School and after he left school joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. He studied broadcasting in the United States in 1939 and during World War II was a member of the Combined Production and, Resources Board in Washington D.C. During this time he was attached to the New Zealand Supply Mission in America and Canada. When he returned to New Zealand in 1945 he joined the electrical importing and manufacturing firm of his father. The Auckland member of the commission, Mr James Stenberg is head of a chain of footwear stores and has been president of the Auckland Competitions Society since its inception in 1946. He has initialled awards for male voices and a recital contest for soloists and musical ensembles. (Earlier Reference Page 9)