Radio Club Notes

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 10

Radio Club Notes

An official communication from the New Zealand Broadcasting Board states that the power of 3YA, Christchurch is now 10 kilowatts. At times!

The Club has made a presentation of a piece of crystalware to Mrs Haywood, Richmond Street. Mrs Haywood has kindly given the Club full use of her telephone for hospital business for the two and a half years, sometimes at great inconvenience to herself.

At the conclusion of the business of the last meeting a most interesting talk on “Sport in South Canterbury” was given by Mr C. E. Hassall. Mr Hassall outlined the beginning of major sports in this district and traced their development.

The radio authorities have already plans well in hand for election night, on Wednesday, 27th November. Experience gained in previous elections indicates that after 8.30, there will be very little programme and nearly all election news. Arrangements have been made to receive results as they come to hand and to broadcast them from all the Board’s stations immediately. In the early stages of the evening the news will be interspersed with music; later the stations will be handling election news almost entirely. In all probability the stations will be "on the air” until mid-night, and, if the situation warrants It, there is little doubt that they will carry on to the small hours of the morning.

Recently the Telegraph service of Australia proved its efficiency in an unusual manner. A man called at a suburban Post Office in Sydney and said he wanted to get into touch with a man with whom he was unable to keep an appointment in the city. He supplied identification particulars of the man and the telegram was sent at 12.45 p.m. as follows:—“Tom Jones, in blazer of two blues, having appointment with Smith, 1 p.m., Town Hall, Perth.” Immediately the telegram was received at the Perth Office a special

Hon. Secretary and Treasurer— D. W. Beswick, 197 Otipua Road.

messenger was sent to deliver it. From the description supplied he had no difficulty in identifying the addressee and handed him the telegram before 1 o’clock.

A Melbourne newspaper recently conducted a plebiscite on the popularity of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, which are at present attracting large crowds in that city. The following is the final result of the opinion of its readers: Yeomen of the Guard .. .. 816 Mikado 252 The Gondoliers 62 8 lolanthe 571 Patience 829 Ruddigore 817 Pirates of Penzance 267 H.M.S. Pinafore .. .. .. •• 250

Residents of Fiji, Papua, and the mandated territory of New Guinea will shortly be provided with broadcasting programmes by the establishment of broadcasting stations at Suva and Port Moresby. The transmitter for the Port Moresby station is now on the site, and it is anticipated that this station will be in operation this month. The transmitting 1 equipment for the Suva station is now nearing completion.

A French official listening centre has been opened in Paris. A wide range of receiving equipment has been installed to enable a watch to be maintained not only on the French national transmissions, but on those from all European countries. Logs will be kept to record transmission quality and wave-length constancy.

The foreman of a shoe factory at Marienwerder, Prussia, was recently dismissed for “listening in to Moscow," and when he sued the firm for damages in respect of unlawful dismissal lost the case. The court dismissed the claim on the ground that “listening to Moscow is calculated to shake the confidence which ought to subsist between employer and staff.”