NEW RADIO STATIONS
BROADCASTING SERVICE CONTRACT FOR TRANSMITTERS [ItV TELEGRAPH — I'KKSS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Important extensions of radio broad casting facilities are invohou in * decision ot the Cabinet to accept ® tender of Amalgamated \\jr.ele >s i ited, for the construction of two transmitters of live kilowatts, « K w equal to the power fornierb use . . the national stations. One Uansnii is to be installed at a new station near lnvereargill to serve the Sou land district, and the- second operate near Hastings, serving Haw *0 Ha.v and the Kast Coast. The Postmaster-General, the F. Jones, stated on belialf <>l the » inl ter of Broadcasting, that while soUI months would be required for the ctM struction of the apparatus * lation would be promptly J? 3 "" 1 and the new stations should ® the air about the end of August.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22853, 7 October 1937, Page 10
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