EMPIRE BROADCAST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 2

EMPIRE BROADCAST

SUCCESSFUL RECEPTION

The Empiro broadcast of the ceremony of the unveiling of the Port Said War Memorial, says the Christchurch Press, was, technically, the biggest yet attemuted, and is regarded as an epochmarking event in the development of the proposed linking-up of the Empiro by radio. As far as Christchurch was concerned, the broadcast was completely successful.

The difficulties involved in the ie-bi-oadcasting in New Zealand of tnis particular ceremony realised when it is mentioned that the actual distance covered by the radio transmission was 16,000 miles. I lie proceedings .were transmitted by land-line from Pori, Maid to Cairo; thence they were broadcast from a commercial station to the chain of English broadcasting centres. These in turn were picked up in other parts of the" Empire and rebroadcast for the benefit of the thousands of listeners in each country. Both Hie British National Anthem and the Egyptian National Anthem, with which the proceedings opened, were perfectly clear, but unfortunately the singing of the hymn ‘ O God, Our Help in Ages Past,” was spoilt by the close proximity oi the microphone lo the singers on the platform. The speech of the High Commissioner for Egypt, His Excellency Mir Percy Loraine, was audible in every detail, but the early part of Mr. Hughes’ speech was affected by strong “surging.” The lattic of the rides of the guard was heard distmcllv as the soldiers presented anus while the Australian. New Zealand. Egyptian, and British dags were broken out. The dedication of the memorial by the Bishop of Egypt was exceptionally clear, and then the beautiful bugle notes of "Last Post ’ and “Reveille,” incisive and clear over thousands of miles of space