ROTORUA TV PIONEER
Payment By Society
(N.Z. Press Association) ROTORUA, Feb. 15
Mr D. J Cobbe. the radio engineer who brought television to Rotorua by building the city’s translator, received his first payment today for his pioneering work The Rotorua Televiewers' Society sent Mr Cobbe a cheque for £487 In payment for two translators, the new five-watt unit which will begin operation tonight and the original one-watt unit.
The society also received good news today. The N.Z.B.C. said it would pay the full year’s maintenance costs of £lBO to keep the society’s translator on Mount Ngongotaha working.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30058, 16 February 1963, Page 12
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