New Manager for 9PA

MR. ROY GLENISTER has been ap pointed ABC branch manager in New Guinea (9PA Port Moresby) in succession to Mr. Basil Kirke, who has completed his term of appointment and will transfer to head office, Sydney.

During 1944-45 Mr. Glenister was in charge of 9PA for eleven and a half months. One of his immediate tasks now will be to supervise the establishment of the permanent home of 9PA which is be ing built at Badili.

For the past four years Roy Glenister has been the ABC’s Assistant Manager for Queensland. He has been in radio almost since it started in Australia and has had wide experience as a performer, as an announcer and as an executive.

Born in Victoria, he served in World War I as a trumpeter in the Army Service Corps and was then transferred to the First Division Concert Party “The Senti mental Blokes.”

After the war he remained in Lon don for a time to develop his voice (a bass-baritone) and to gain stage ex perience. Back in Australia in 1919 he joined a Digger revue but after his mar riage he settled in Perth, WA, and became a builder and for several years he divided his time between building and stage work.

During the depression he gave up building to go gold mining.

In 1931 he joined the Aus tralian Broadcasting Company in Perth as an announcer. He recalls that in those days an announcer had to choose his own news items, help devise programmes, read stories and talks, conduct community singing concerts, act in plays and sing in variety.

When the Australian Broad casting Commission was formed, Mr. Glenister re mained on as an announcer and radio handyman. Since 1938 he has had a taste of administrative experience re lieving the Manager for Wes tern Australia.

His sport to-day is golf (handicap 15-11). Another hobby is doing any hard work about the house-building, cementing, carpentry and painting. It sounds as though he should do well at 9PA.

Mr. Basil Kirke

Mr. R. Glenister