THOROUGHLY SUCCESSFUL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 34, 12 March 1930, Page 8

THOROUGHLY SUCCESSFUL

RADIO CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK. HEARD WITH GREAT CLARITY IN NAPIER. Midnight last night saw numbers of Napier radio enthusiasts listening-in to 2YA Wellington for the relay of the radio ionversations between mehibers of the Byrd expedition and members of tlie staff of tlie New York Times and business acquaintances in New York. According to the experiences of sev- , eral listeners the relay was 100 per c-ent successful from the experimental standpoint. , Listeners from Napier were able to hear Rear-Admiral Byrd and tlie other speakers from Dunedin as-clearly as if tliev' were actually in the same room and the voices from

New York came through with almosfc the same degree of clarity. Tlie conversations wero for tbe most part purely of a business ua ture. Rear-Admiral Byrd was tho first to come to the mierophone at Dunedin, and he carried on conversations with members of tbe New York Times staff and with business acouaintances. Other speakers from New Zealand were Mr Russell Owcn, press representative with the 'expedition, Rear-Admiral Byrd's secretary, and Mr A, G. Henderson, manager of tlie Christchurch Star. The conversations had proceeded for an hour' when the faet that Australia's signals were fading badly caused New Zealand to ciose clown for tlie benefit of New York listeners, but nevertlieless wireless enthusiasts thoroughly enioyed the unique experienc-e to which thy had been treated.