RADIO RESEARCH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 11

RADIO RESEARCH

COMMITTEE APPOINTED CO-ORDINATION OF EFFORTS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Sunday The Cabinet's approval of the establishment of a radio research committee has been announced by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research. The committee will operate in association with the Research Council of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The personnel of the committee is as follows:—Professor J. Shelley, Director of Broadcasting, chairman; Professor P. W. Burbidge, professor of physics, Auckland University College; Professor F. W. G. White, professor of physics, Canterbury College; Professor R. Jack, professor of physics, Otago University; and one representative from each of the Departments of Defence, Post and Telegraph and Scientific and Industrial Research.

The committee will have as its main objectives the co-ordination of the radio research activities of the broadcasting, post and telegraph and defence services, and aviation, and of the university colleges. The establishment of liaison with radio research organisations in other parts of the Empire, and particur larly with the Australian Radio Research Board, so that research in the southern hemisphere can be carried out in the most profitable way, is also an important aim. A further purpose will be to develop radio research in New Zealand in its scientific aspects, with special reference to local geographical and meteorological factors and to the problem of adequate broadcasting coverage.