New Broadcasting

Station for Fiji Very Modern Installation

A BROADCASTING station com plete with all the latest devices has been built in Gladstone Road, Suva, by Amalgamated Wireless A/sia) Ltd. for the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, and will be brought into operation at an early date.

The installation has been carried out under the direction of Mr. F.

C. Exon, who has been AWA’s rep resentative in Fiji for 20 years.

Although the work involved special constructional features unique in Fiji, an impressive job has been done by Mr. F. H. Beckett* (architect) and Messrs. Bidesi & Sons (builders).

Broadcasting House contains a series of rooms and appliances puzzling to the layman. Some of

the rooms are definitely unorthodox in shape and in some of them are strange gadgets never before seen in Suva. All this represents the most modern technique in broad casting. The more important studios are shaped in that way to prevent reverberations; all studios are deeply soundproofed; and a wide range of valves and dampers and radiators, designed to control temperature and humidity, are automatically adjusted by thermo stats and hygrostats.

The new establishment will be formally taken over and directed by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, controlled by the Government, on which the major races of Fiji are represented. Within a few months the Colony of Fiji (and, in cidentally, the archipelagoes close to Fiji) will be receiving a radio broadcast service which —at least technically—will be equal to any thing in the world.

Mr. R. L. Munro, one of Suva’s leading solicitors, is Chairman of the Commission.