BROADCASTING RECORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18761, 15 July 1924, Page 8

BROADCASTING RECORD.

CHICAGO TO MOTUEKA.

NEW ZEALAND CLAIM UPHELD* [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COBRESPOHDKNT.] WELLINGTON, Monday. In March tho Chicago Tribune broadcasting station held a special New Zealand and Australian test programme which included an address from Sir George Fe:awick. Mr. W. K. Lane, of Motueka, picked up the message with a de Forest three-valve reflex set. Doubts were cast on Mr. Lane's remarkable record, but the following extracts from a letter to Mr. Lane from Mr. Ben Garetson will surely silence all critics.

Writing from Chicago under date June 5, 1924, he says: " I am to-day in receipt of your newspapers containing the report of your reception of the special New Zealand-Australia test prograrnmje carried out by station WGN (formerly WJAZ) on the evenings cf March 29 and 30. There can be no possible doubt that you received! our station fairly continuously for a period of about four hours. The report in the Nelson Evening Mail of Wednesday, April 2, reads almost like our station log. There are, of course, a few discrepancies, but these are inconsequential and clearly due to the difficulty of reception at such a distance and to the difference in accent. In {act, listeners within a few mijes of the*station under parallel conditions with regard to station and interference might easily have made the same mistakes in transcribing spoken words, call letters and descriptive announcements. Unfortunately I am unable to give you the exact time at which the talk of Sir George Fenwick was delivered, .as carelessness on the part of one of the Studion employees resulted in a mix-up with the time on a number of late items broadcasted. " Sir George Fenwick's address, by the way, ! was read by the writer, as Sir George at the time of the programme was in New York and furnished us with a telegraph greeting to be re\d to New Zealand and Australia. With congratulations on this really remarkable record of broadcast reception, I am, very cordially yours (signed), Ben Gareteon, director of station WGN."