9Pa's First Peacetime
pp. 73-74 · Read in the full issue
Birthday
THE AUSTRALIAN Broadcasting Com-
P ai ?y’s o nJ y s tation outside Aus tralia, 9PA, Port Moresby, has just completed its first year of peace-time transmissions.
The station’s original job was to pro vide entertainment for Australian and Alhed semcemen in New Guinea, and to a SI th P n ativ es to the Allied cause The station is now on the air for over 10 hours each day and programmes are a cross section of those familiar to Aus tralian listeners—news sessions, news re- RSf G f Ue ? of Honour - Mike Connors’
Breakfast Session and Sporting Round-
Cic.
Papuan natives are catered for with sessions in the Motuan dialect. ttT* Programme director is Mr. A, J.
Halls; Controller of Broadcasts in Ex ternal Territories is Mr. Basil Klrke formerly ABC manager for NSW, who spends much of his time looking for kero sene stoves, pipes and taps for the staff huts, as well as managing the station, for conditions are primitive and the station consists of old army huts, five miles out of Port Moresby.
Dr. T. Brennan, Chief Medical Officer in the Territory of New Guinea for many years before the war and in charge of the Army Medical Service of Bth Military District during it, recently visited the Territory. After leaving the Army, Dr.
Brennan spent some time in private prac tice in Sydney, then visited the Far'East on the medical staff of UNRRA.