WELLINGTON'S STATION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 14

WELLINGTON'S STATION

The Wellington broadcasting station is coming in for some criticism lately—' partly as the result of comparison with the new transmitters at Auckland and Christehurch, and partly because it has "fallen from grace" latcly.'lt had a particularly unfortunate spasm last Sunday night. Usually the Sunday band concert is splendidly put.dut, but tie lust one, owing apparently to trouble in the relay system, was a 'terrible failure. It would have been better to have closed the station down than'to [have allowed the public to listen to the vain struggle that went on between the operators and the apparatus. There is a rumour that a new station is to be provided shortly, but how. ' long "shortly" means is a question. The writer has been provided, as the result of an inquiry, with the following official statement from the head of the Post and Telegraph Department:— "The agreement between the. Post-master-General and the New Zealand .Broadcasting Company provides'for the erection of a broadcasting station at Wellington by the Broadcasting Company when'called upon hy the Postinas-

ter-General. The Postmaster-General ■ has intimated to the Broadcasting Company that a station should be proceeded with, and negotiations are now in train with a view, to the establishment of a suitable station within the next nine or twelve months. The Post and Telegraph Department has no information as to whether a definite order has been given for the erection of the station. Such information could only be given by the Broadcasting Company."