BROADCASTING CUT
THE NEW RESTRICTIONS SERVICE REDUCED 15 PER CENT. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 25. Beginning on Monday, additional restrictions are to be placed on the hours of broadcasting. On Mondays to Fridays of each week, all broadcasting stations throughout New Zealand will close down between 8.10 a.m. and 8.40 a.m., from 11 a.m. to noon, and from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. till further notice. Announcing the new restricted hours this evening, the Minister of Works. Mr Semple, and the Minister of Broadcasting, Mr Jones, said that a reduction of some 15 per cent, in the hours of broadcasting had become unavoidable owing to the increasingly serious position of electric supply throughout the North Island. In round" figures, there were over 250,000 radio receiving sets in the North Island. AH these sets took much more power than the transmitting stations. If listeners took particular care to see that their sets were actually switched off from the power supply when the stations were closed down, the savings in power would be considerable and would be made at the times of the day when the peak load was at its maximum.
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Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 6
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189BROADCASTING CUT Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 6
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