CUT IN BROADCAST INC HOURS
lil 1 < TKNTI V f OVIKOI I Ut S AI)VI( i: S.WIN'C WIMI.I) Mil 111-: <ilf I \| Ain k lai:>l. Si '| it.. :::» ' :•:• r:I i 11:: hour:: to save electricity have i ! iml lien ;i *i| in e. c< I l>y the :i til linn I.(■ . 1 , :nid mfi inii;il u 'll v.'lncli llic \V:11f«*111;11;i I '■!<■<• Inr I’mv.'im Hu; ire I rri <• i ' (I 1u c 1; i \ i rum tin' Klcrl nr I'm.' it Hoards .ill' St ppl.v Attlhui it ir A uci.itiiin .st;i(c-il Mrit the i ii*c• 11 11• 11,v conii uiler h;nl told the ;i; siicint ion tint it was nut run ::i<lerod advisable In make any rlian.'v at life cut. The controller advi: e.l ll,e a soriatiun that the matter had been tally investigated and carefully run. idered by the Clovernment. Kmm reports received from the Director of the Na lional Broadcastmi; S< r\ ce and the controller of the National Commercial Service it. appeared that the savins; in electricity would not be as areal as llu' association had : u "s ted. “To make an appreciable saving,” said tin- controller, ‘‘it would be necessary to cease broadcast mg during tin hours of maximum listeners, say, be tween <> p.m. and Hi p in. The po.;i linn eoneernim: power : upply doe. not appear to warrant such a drastii step, and such a : top would un doubtedl.v cause irritation and resent incut. Then? e also another most im portant aspect, and that is that if tin hours of broadcasting for New Zea land stations are curtailed a vn; considerable number of listener: would tune in to stations outside Nov Zealand dui mi;-. uch hour.'. Consider inn all the circumstances and after ; careful stialy of the reports, it is no com iderecl adv-i? able to make an: change at present."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 4
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