MEDIEVAL CASTLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 124, 23 April 1927, Page 8

MEDIEVAL CASTLE.

ON WELLINGTON HEIGHTS.

NEW BROADCASTING STATION. WELLINGTON, April 81. Like a medieval castle overlooking the city from the top of Mount Victoria has risen the new Wellington broadcasting station which is being built by the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealaijd. The roof, which is flat, and walls are surrounded by battlements and surmounted by a little tower, and are practically completed. Next week work begins on the interior. The structure measures 71 feet by 29. ' , The machinery is all on the ground ready for - installation, and the foundations for the steel lattice work towers for the aerial are reatjy. There are two sets which -will be 300, feet apart. The towers will stand 164 feet high from the bases. When the Prime Minister was in England a cable announced that he had inspected a five-kilowatt plant to replace 2YK, Wellington. That set was then next to Daventry, the most powerful in England. Its rating applies to its aerial power and places it'anead of the large Australian equipment. It will be ten times as powerful as the stations recently erected at Christchurch and Auckland. That the quality, of'the matter to be broadcasted from the station when it is completed frill be good is the hope of- all enthusiasts, not only for the sake of listeners, in New Zealand, hut v in other lands to which the waves will penetrate.