R 4
Various districts were checked for broadcast receiving licences.
Numerous prosecutions were made, resulting in convictions with fines amounting to over $24,000. Special work was done in connection with control of wireless apparatus in war time.
25. The Broadcasting expenditure in respect of administration and programmes was transferred from Miscellaneous Services to the Post Office vote as from 1st January 1939.
26. The number of broadcast receiving licences taken out during the year was 12,655 (66 of these being subsequently cancelled as enemy alien) - against a total of 10,692 in 1938.
27. In the Chinese programmes, during the month of November, an additional news bulletin was started in Hokkien dialect, the news thus going out every night in three Chinese dialects - Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien.
In the month of February a Chinese concert took place in the Studio, three minutes of which was part of a world-wide hook-up by the NBC relayed from San Francisco.
28. Amongst other features in the programmes during the year, there were two outside broadcasts on the launching of T.S.M.V.'s "Breconshire" and "Glenorchy". On the occasion of the latter an innovation was an actual broadcast from the ship itself as it was going down the stocks into the water.
29. On the outbreak of war all outside broadcasts were stopped, but after two months the European church services were once more relayed; every measure was taken to insure protection of microphones in all studios. Mid-day services of intercession that took place at St. John's Cathedral are now held in the Studio of ZBW.
30. In connection with the Department of Information regular daily propaganda talks have been given since 18th September, 1939.
31.
In the month of December a short programme of talks and music in the Punjabi language was started, lasting about three-quarters of an hour once a week at 8 o'clock.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
32. Tables XIII, XIV and XV show comparative figures for 1938 and 1939 under separate sub-heads and Table XVI comparative totals for the past seven years.
33. Wireless Licences issued during the year were:-
Ship Station 83 Amateur Transmission Station 19 Dealers 120 Full term Broadcasting Receiving 12,549 Short term Broadcasting Receiving 106 Wireless Telegraph School Experimental Station 3 Import and Export Permit 11 6R. A. D. FORREST,
Postmaster General.
16th March, 1940.
R 4
Various districts were checked for broadcast receiving licences.
Numerous prosecutions were made, resulting in convictions with fines amounting to over $24,000. Special work was done in connection with control of wireless apparatus in war time.
25. The Broadcasting expenditure in respect of administration and programmes was transferred from Miscellaneous Services to the Post Office vote às from 1st January 1939.
26. The number of broadcast receiving licences taken out during the year was 12,655 (66 of these being subsequently cancelled as enemy alien)-against a total of 10,692 in 1938.
27. In the Chinese programmes, during the month of November, an additional news bulletin was started in Hokkien dialect, the news thus going out every night in three Chinese dialects-Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien.
In the month of February a Chinese concert took place in the Studio, three minutes of which was part of a world-wide hook-up by the NBC relayed from San Francisco.
28. Amongst other features in the programmes during the year, there were two outside broadcasts on the launching of T.S.M.V.'s "Breconshire" and "Glenorchy". On the occasion of the latter an innovation was an actual broadcast from the ship itself as it was going down the stocks into the water.
29. On the outbreak of war all outside broadcasts were stopped, but after two months the European church services were once more relayed; every measure was taken to insure protection of microphones in all studios. Mid-day services of intercession that took place at St. John's Cathedral are now held in the Studio of ZBW.
30. In connection with the Department of Information regular daily propaganda talks have been given since 18th September, 1939.
31.
In the month of December a short programme of talks and music in the Punjabi language was started, lasting about three-quarters of an hour once a week at 8 o'clock.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
32. Tables XIII, XIV and XV show comparative figures for 1938 and 1939 under separate sub-heads and Table XVI comparative totals for the past seven years.
33. Wireless Licences issued during the year were:-
Ship Station
Amateur Transmission Station
Dealers
Full term Broadcasting Receiving
Short term Broadcasting Receiving Wireless Telegraph School Experimental Station
Import and Export Permit....
R. A. D. FORREST,
83
19
120
12,549
106
3
11
6
Postmaster General.
16th March, 1940.
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