Fund-raising to start for TV2?

Press, 26 February 1983, Page 6

Fund-raising to start for TV2?

Banks Peninsula residents may not miss the next cricket series on TV2 if they can raise $14,380 for the installation of equipment to broadcast the channel. Fifty people at a public meeting last evening heard proposals by the Broadcasting Corporation to install the necessary equipment at the Mount Pearce and Akaroa translators to provide the Peninsula with a second channel. The corporation was prepared to do the work if the community could raise the money, which would be nonrefundable cash and about one-third of the total cost. The meeting, chaired by Mr D. McKay, decided to ask the Banks Peninsula Progress Association about starting the fund-raising, said the chairman of the Akaroa County Council, Mr T. J. Brocherie, who attended the meeting. The progress association would meet on Sunday evening. The equipment would be installed three months after the receipt of the money, Mr Brocherie said. “I heard it said in the general discussion before the meeting that a number of people said they would, be happy to give $lOO and I am quite sure that the money would be. raised if people really got behind it,” he said.

Banks Peninsula was on the Broadcasting Corporation’s programme for the transmission TV2, but that ,was not until 1985 at least.