MODERN BROADCASTING SYSTEM

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 21, 20 October 1937, Page 7

MODERN BROADCASTING SYSTEM

Installation In Trentham | School A tirrt-cltwß broadcast system that would not be out of place in any nietropolitan school has been installed u the Trentham .School at a cost of ilt'9. K was demonstrated to "The Dominion last night by the chairman of the school committee, Mr. T. Clyma. 'The central instrument is set m the headmaster's room and stands at a man s height. It has a power ot. Io watts Broadcast and shortwave equipment and a radio-gramophone are included in the set. There are six rooms in the school, including two open-air schoolrooms winch are 200 feet from the central 'cnool. Each has a speaker enclosed in a cabinet and connected to the main Instrument. The machine has various uses Ike sound can be reproduced through a loudspeaker into the playground. lesls have shown that this speaker can be beard as far away as the railway station. I.wo other switches change the set over to broadcast, either radio programmes or gramophone music, in the schoo.rooms. Any classroom can be disconnected by its own speaker from the broadcast. I here is also provision for a microphone which would enable the headmaster or anyone else. as the occasion required, to address the school children together in the playground. in their rooms as one, or classroom by classroom. The microphone would cost another £25, and the commit tee has decided to withhold this provision me So tactile committee has raised £s(l—- — the cost of the equipment—without any State grant. Nine years ago the sci’ool was a two-roomed affair attached to Upper Hutt. Since becoming a separate unit it has developed, into one or the most up-to-date schools in the education district. It bad the first open-air classrooms in the North Island modelled on those at Templeton, near Christenurcli. Mr Clyma has been chairman ol the school committee for nine years, and the period of service of all other members range from five to seven years. A pubLc subscription list has been opened to meet the balance of the cost of the equipment. The committee has had to work hard lor the sum already raised and doe. 9 not run dances to augment its funds. The equipment was constructed in A ellington.