BROADCASTING BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 12

BROADCASTING BOARD.

THE ADVISORY COUNOIL. SOME ILL-SERVED LOCALITIES. [By TEI.ECIIAPH. —rUESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON", Friday. The first meeting-of the advisory council appointed to make recommendations to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board concluded to-day. Mr. J. H. Owen, of Wellington, was appointed chairman of the council. The deliberations were in private. The whole field of broadcasting was fully discussed. It was indicated that, in the opinion of tho council, certain localities were at present ill-served by the YA stations, these districts being Southland, Stewart Island, Central Otago, South Canterbury, West Coast, Nelson, Wairarapa, Napier-Hastings, Gisborne, Palmerston North, North Tai-anaki, Waikato and Bay of Pleuty-Rotorua. In this connection, it was resolved, in view of the certainty that a fully-developed service depended on the expert report of the "coverage" commission sot up to investigate, to recommend thafc the next step to be taken might advantageously be co-operation with existing stations in the following places:—lnvercargill, Greymouth, Masterton, Hastings, Gisborne, Palmerston North, New Plymouth and Hamilton. The board was recommended to consider as soon as pi*acticable cases not included in this list, as they have at present no stations, and the possibility of meeting the position either by increasing the power of adjacent YA stations, by subsidising any station to be privately established in a locality, or by other means. The council thought the policy of the board should ultimately bo to increase the power and coverage of YA stations, rather than to build numerous small stations. The council considered that the suppression of serious radio interference should be the subject of Government regulation.