EXTENDED HOURS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21279, 5 September 1932, Page 14

EXTENDED HOURS

To-day will mark tho introduction of longer hours of transmission from IYA. Tho extended hours will bo adopted at 3YA, Cbristcburch, and 4YA, Dunedin, next Monday definitely. The new sessions will practically correspond with those at 2YA, Wellington. Silent days will be abolished altogether. Saturday and Sunday sessions will remain as at present. From Mondry to Friday transmission will commence at 10 a.m., when a short devotional service will be held. Broadcasts will bo continuous until closing down at 10 or 11 p.m. Dance music sessions from all four stations have been rearranged to provide dance music from at least one of the stations every evening of the week except Sunday. Station IYA will broadcast dance music on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Adoption of the longer sessions means that IYA will be on the air for about 35 hours a week longer than formerly. Transmission during the current week will occupy about 77 hours. IYA STATION DIRECTOR The director of IYA, Mr. L. Barnes, who has been on a fortnight's holiday, will resume his duties to-day. Mr. C. S. Booth, of tho Broadcasting Board's head office, who has been relieving Mr. Barnes, will return to Wellington this evening. U-BOAT TALK BARRED Captain Ernst Hashagen, who commanded a German submarine, a U-boat, during the war, was to have broadcast in London recently to tell British listeners-in how he torpedoed British and Allied .merchant ships. But the broadcast was cancelled, owing to spirited criticism of the project. .The decision was cheered in the Honso of Commons. The talk was planned as a > serious contribution toward the elimination of this method of warfaro and would have been so expressed. In view, however, of the international discussions at Geneva, it was decided not to proceed with tho talk. Captain Hashagen was tho commander of the U62, which is said to have sunk more than 60 Allied vessels during the war. He had been announced to tell his fetory in a " Hazard" series, and had been required to give an undertaking not to take part in any propaganda or controversy during his visit. His manuscript had bdfen submitted to the British Broadcasting Corporation. On Juno 4 a talk given by Kapitanlcutnant A. D. Joachim Brei'thaupt, the exZeppelin commander, describing his experiences while on a bombing expedition over London, was the subject of protest by the British Empire Union and by many people whose relatives or friends wore killed or injured in Germany's war on non-combatants.