WIRELESS FROM CAVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 12

WIRELESS FROM CAVE.

CONCERT AT WAITOMO.

NOVEL BROADCAST SUCCESS.

The Cathedral Chamber, Waitomo Caves, proved an oxcellent broadcasting studio last ovonmg, when a special concert arranged by the Broadcasting Company and the Tourist Department was relayed from there over land-lines to Auckland and sent out to listeners by Station iya: • ~ ■ All the items came through clearly, and np fault was to be found with either the acoustics of the cave or the Tele-, graph Department's transmission by. wire. In> some introductory remarks, Mr, A. E. Wilson, of tho Tourist Department, mentioned that it.had cost a good deal of trouble to convey a piano into tho cava for the concert. Mr., Wilson added that if, as was possible, another entertainment of aho-same,-kiad. ..was broadcast at a later date, one of tho guides would 4 .be asked to give a talk upon tho oaves. Tho artists who contributed to the programme were .well-known .performers at IYA. They included Miss Millicent O'Grady, soprano; Miss Nina Scott, elocutionist; Mi\ Lon Barnes (station director), baritone; and Mr. r Owen Pritchard, violinist. Mr. Cyril Towsey, the studio pianist, played tho accompaniments .and also contributed two solos. .

NEW YORK BROADCAST.

CONCERT TO-MORROW AFTERNOON,

Advice has been Received by cablegram that a special wireless concert will be broadcast-from' Ne\y York to-morrow afternoon at approximately two o'clock,-New Zealand time, for }ho benefit of tho Byrd Expedition, and it will bo possible for Owners of short-wave sets in New Zealand to tine in. Tho concert, which has taken eight week 3 to organise, will consist' of numbera by * * promineht *• talking-picture players.