For Apia's New Broadcasting
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Major e. elliot lloyd, ed, who has been appointed officer in charge of the new Broadcasting Station, at Apia, Western Samoa, has been Manager of Radio Station 2YH, Napier, New Zea land.
Major Lloyd after serving with the NZEP, in the Pacific, was seconded in 1944 to the Colonial Office and served for fifteen months as Secretary to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Gov ernment. He then became British Repre sentative in the Condominium of Canton and Enderbury Islands, stationed at Can ton Island, and in 1946 he was appointed District Officer, Ocean Island. He re turned to New Zealand last May and took up duty in Napier.
The new station, which is being erected for the Samoan Government by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, will broad cast on a frequency of 1,420 kilocycles, and it is hoped to have the station “on the air” before Christmas.
Mr. W. J. Hawthorne, of W. J. Haw thorne & Co., Samabula, Fiji, arrived in Sydney in November. He is seeking motor spares and tyres. He said that un less mechanical spare parts could be secured from Australia, road transport in Fiji and Tonga would become paralysed within six months. Cars and buses were lying idle all over the Islands because they could not be repaired.