Radio-New Zealand Changes
pp. 29-30 · Read in the full issue
New Zealand’s Minister of Broadcasting has announced that alterations were be ing made to the aerial system of Radio- NZ, Wellington, which serves Islands listeners.
Due to ionispheric conditions which affect radio broadcasting. Radio-NZ will be forced to use lower frequency bands
during the next few years, to provide a satisfactory service to the Islands. New aerial systems for these lower frequencies are now being prepared and will come into operation next winter.
Monsieur Jean Djabian, lately meteorologist and radio operator at Bora Bora, French Oceania went to New Zealand on vacation, and perhaps to find employment, in May.
He had a distinguished record in the RAF 1940-46, is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, holds the Croix de Guerre with 2 bars, the Medale de Resistance, Medale Colo niale, the 1939-45 Star, and the Africa Star. M. Djabian is one of those who chose to fight with the Allies by stealing an aircraft and fly ing to join the RAF in the Middle East.
The marriage of Miss Patricia Wynette de Mey, of Queensland, to Mr. Kenneth Fox of Honiara, BSI, took place at the SDA Church, Honiara on July 26. The newly married couple will live in Honiara where Mr. Fox is with K. H.
Dalrymple Hay Pty., Ltd.
Mr. Lester Hawkins, a Sydney male nurse, left Sydney with his wife and two children in July for the Chimbu Valley, New Guinea Central Highlands. For the Seventh Day Adventist Mission there he will train natives in dentistry and medical work.