REAR-ADMIRAL BYRD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20516, 18 March 1930, Page 12

REAR-ADMIRAL BYRD.

ADDRESS TO CHILDREN. BROADCAST IN AUCKLAND. Pupils of the Auckland city and suburban schools will listen this afternoon to an address by Rear-Admiral Byrd, which will be broadcast from Station 2YA at 3 o'clock. 0 The address will Be delivered in the Dunedin Town Hall in tho presence of 6000 schoolchildren, and arrangements have been made to havo the speech relayed by means of land lines to tho broadcasting stations in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, and also to Station 2YB, New Plymouth. With the co-operation of the Auckland Education Board and the Auckland Radio Dealers' Association, four centres have been established at which children will hear tho speech. The North Shore pupils will assemble at the Takapuria racecourse, tho city schools at the Domain, while the Training College (Epsom) and the Western Springs Stadium will cater for children of the eastern and western suburbs respectively. Arrangements have been made for children from the Cornwall Park, To Papapa, Kowhai, New Lynn, Glen Eden, Henderson, Northcote, Birkenhead and Curran Street schools to hear tlie address in their own schools. St. Heliers children will attend the Kohimarama School, Mangero Bridge children at Onehunga School, Milford Side School children at Takapuna, and those from Papatoeloc and Mangere East schools at Otahuhu. Parenfs arc invited to attend at the four main centres, but they will not be admitted to the schools in which listening apparatus is installed. The Education Board is also appealing to owners of radio sets, in country districts to place their sets at the disposal of teachers in order that pupils may have an opportunity of hearing the address. For the benefit of the public a transmission of the address will take place in the Lewis Eady Hall.,