RADIO SERVICE.

Grey River Argus, 18 February 1943, Page 2

RADIO SERVICE.

(To The Editor)

Sir. —Although there is a war on I think it is high time that we had something on the West Coast better than 3ZR. There are lots of people who (owing to interferences) have to rely? entirely on this station, and very often can’t even get this properly, and workers like myself are on the job before the station opens. In spite of large salaries paid, I understand that listeners fees gave a net profit of over sixty thousand pounds last year. Surely then, we here in this province are entitled to _ something that we can listen to when we want to. 5 live only five miles from Greymouth, and even at night 3ZR is the onjy station that I can hear for noises^ —due I think, to power lines ne<?a’. that crackle and throw out spares day and night. About that nothing is ever done. Ever since the

lines bringing power from Canterbury were erected behind Camel ons. Gladstone, Paroa, etc., one can hear the leaks nearly any time, and it still goes on. Why, in Christchurch, where there is a perfect mass of electric wires and gear, reception is just heavenly compared with this. If we can’t have the interferences stopped on a station than can drown them out, af least let 3ZR be on the air with a musical programme between six and seven a.m, , I am, etc., . BREAKFAST MUSIC.