Parliamentary Broadcasts
Sir, —Your correspondent, "Trying to' fee Patient,” who eays nasty things about the “Minister who sits near the microphone,” should try to curb his imagination a little. There are five microphones in the House —one for Mr. Speaker, and four others suspended along the centre of the chamber. An operator is seated ou the floor, and . his job is to switch over to whichever microphone is nearest to the member about to speak. If an interjection comes from the other end of the chamber, the operator turns up the microphone nearest the interjector. In this way all speeches and most interjections can be heard clearly and distinctly. There is no such man as “the Minister who sits near the microphone.”—l am, etc., CLEAR EAiRS.. Wellington, August 9.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 13
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