Peninsula may get better radio

Press, 29 February 1984, Page 9

Peninsula may get better radio

Residents of Mount Herbert County on Banks Peninsula may get better radio reception thanks to the effforts of a local woman, Mrs S. Gebbie. Mrs Gebbie wrote to the Mount Herbert County Council expressing concern about the poor reception of Radio 3ZB in the area. She asked it and the Wairewa County Council to lobby for a stronger signal for Banks Peninsula to provide the area with a better civil defence coverage. Mrs Gebbie told the council the public was asked to listen to the station in the event of a civil emergency. Few car radios could receive the signal from an area between Victoria Park and Akaroa, she said.

Many Banks Peninsula residents have experienced poorer reception since the station’s transmitter was moved from Gebbies Pass to its present site at Marshland, in Christchurch. At its recent meeting, the council decided to write to Civil Defence expressing its concern about the poor radio reception and the consequent civil defence implications. Deputy chairman Cr R. F. J. Barnett, who was elected to the council last October, has been elected deputy chairman. Cr Barnett was manager of the Bradley Estate, now the Orton Bradley Farm Park, in Charteris Bay, before moving to Port Levy in 1964.