OUR CONCEPTION OF BOMBAY

Serial Waves, 14 September 1940, Page 8

OUR CONCEPTION OF BOMBAY

we ourselves are merely glorified tourists with a tremendous political pull. But to get down to brass tacks, it might be as well to take this chance of letting everyone on board know something of what we hope to do. First of all, our name is somewhat misleading in that we will not be broadcasting in the accepted sense of the term. Primarily we are a recording unit, designed for the express purpose of making permanent recordings of every possible phase of life on board this Transport, and, what is more important, overseas. On our arrival at our destination —???• (and if any of you know where that will be we wish you would tell us), we will be attached to base. From there we hope to be permitted to attach ourselves for several

days at a time to individual units. During the time we live with your different sections, we will constantly be making recordings telling N. Z. how you work, how you live, how you play, and what you do. Should we be with any unit when it goes into action, as complete a description as possible will be recorded in the field, and this news will ultimately be heard over every broadcasting station in N. Z.

Actually, arrangements have been made for every National and Commercial Station to give the fullest publicity to recordings sent home. In your army life you will constantly come up against all sorts of difficulties in connection with your job. We anticipate quite a few headaches ourselves, particularly in the matter of getting our news back to N. Z. in the very shortest time.

If we happen to be working near a powerful radio station, our troubles will be few, because once ' our recorded commentaries are passed by Army Censor, it will be only a matter of a few seconds before our story is received in N. Z. and recorded there. But our difficulties will arise when we have some really first , rate up to the minute material to send home, and we find ourselves may be hundreds of miles away from . any radio station. However, ,we will have to meet that when it comes, but we do feel that by telling the : folks at home how you are getting on, and by occasionally putting individual troops on the air to send their personal messages to their families, so . that we will have been able to shorten the thousands of miles that separate us from our homes.