THE NEWS SESSIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 100, 2 May 1929, Page 23

THE NEWS SESSIONS

"Ljstcniug-in" (Wauganui) writes: ' 2YA is, I believe the best radio station south of the Live, and the matter put on the air is, I fee] sure, just about tlio poorest in the Dominion. Now, Sir, svlio is to blame for this state of affairs? The children's session is excellent, but when what is called the news und reports session comes on 'what a fall is there." We hear the' health of His Majesty, the weather forecast, and the prices of butter, cheese, mutton, and lamb, and these from four or five different firms, but practically all the same; and then we are lucky if wo gfetr more than two items of genuine news, after which we hear: 'We have with us to-night , who will talk on,' etc., and this, with the tips for to-morrow's races, occupies 2YA till 8 p.m. . . . May I here say that 2FC, Sydney, gives nowf at seven every evening, and gives more in ten minutes in a fine, dear voice, than 2YxV gives iv a month. A few weeks ago a wellknown racehorse trainer died, and the fact was over the air that evening, but when Professor Bickerton, a scientist head and shoulders above the ordinary, died, it took tho station three days to put it over."