BROADCASTING THE TEST

Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 4

BROADCASTING THE TEST

PENALTY ON CHfIiSTCHURGH STATION . Further to tlui telegraphed.' pieagag? in the.* Star \ at the.beginning of fhe w^ek. regal’ding the broadcasting of the cricket test by 3231,: aiitl tlm’rCslilt, .a, local paper states:— Broadcasting station dZjll did not broadcast a relay of tbfe land, test cricket last nigljt (Joly 23) at it'did on . alight ap(| fsuhlmy morning. , was yefuied. 'by the .'Hjthorities, arid, fnofe thbri that, the station will have to deduct ff6tp;|tii regular programme this -week the five hours from Saturday tjll 5 a.m. on Sunday in relaying to hundreds of intensely interested, listen, ers .the absorbing account . of ;tlje batting of Bradman end Pons ford. On Saturday night the running account of the play, which has heieh tijeli a feature for those whose sets have been able to bring ih the Australia]} stations, was iela#fed by 3J2M, by ari

i-angemeut with SUE; Sydney. The station received hundreds, of inquiries as to whether the service Would be, repented last evepirtg. , There were dozens of Congratulatory lottefs. At 4.30 a.m. op Sunday; one enthußiast. who lived ip the district ami bad i)o telephone,, actually visited the station, to Say how pleased be was, aiid to hand over : a subscription ‘ to- the 3ZM Radio Club. Many other new subscriptions were received, by. latter. The stdtioii, therefore, applied to the Post and Telegraph Department, through the radio, iiisepctor, for permission to repent the Service last bight. Word **** received by telephone from Wellington that no extension, of hours could be granted; “for such ,a, purposed’’ anji, furthermore, that the 3ZM station would have to dediict from this Week’s programme the extra five hours that it was on the air on Sunday morning. ’That means that, the station will not be on the,air at all Ori Friday, and that there Will be no Saturday morning session, the station remaining silent till .SatUrduy flight. And .those who cannot get Australia tp listendn to the test match, will have to go without. . .. UOst .OyiUUng; i-be station director endeavoured id speaikto the PpsthiasterGeneral at : Parliftmeat Buildings, hut he. was informed that, as no announcement had been made concerning the tempoMry redistribution l of portfolios in ednsequenoo of- the illness of the Hon. Adam Hamilton, the. f’ostmastefCJcheml was not available for a conversation. On The telephone. Tjio fetation director stated that he ipteiicfed to write- to the PostroasterTGeperal, protesting against the decision of the department to ; enforce the regulation regarding limitation of hours. . Jn the special, circumsfhnces, and ip view of the extraordinary.ipterest, ii( the take njaich,-the Postinnfeter-General is to bO asked . to. reconsider t]io decision, and to grant permisklSri fay the maintenance' of the ordinary schedule. We feel that we should hot ,bs; penalised fbf, having shown some enterprise ip meeting P . wideS'pifeajJ piiblic d& mapd/’ said, thc.statlpn, director, iii Ox, plaining AVbat ,he proposed to do.' “ I feel ive can rely -upon the good sense of the Minister to apprecialfe this poifit of view.’’ -