August 8, 2026 • 43 mins
In the first episode of the 100 Years of ZB Podcast, Mike Hosking takes you through the birth of the iconic 1ZB in 1926.
The episode takes you through the history of the station from 1926 until the beginning of 1987. You'll hear snippets from the iconic names - like Phil Shone, Aunt Daisy, Selwyn Toogood, Merv Smith and Marina (Jocelyn Parr).
Mike Hosking will also take you back in time to the famous moments from the 1ZB Theatre in Auckland - and the radio dramas that made the station an unmissable listen.
You'll also hear how 1ZB covered the big stories over that time - including the World War Two, the Wahine Disaster and the 1981 Springbok Tour.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Corruption Jersey completely dismissed out of hand by the way
and bus.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You'll see, well, speaking of common sense, there isn't a
great deal of it. Same arrangement will turn out to
be a deserter.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Fighting a battle against people who just keep dismissing your place.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So you have on put your cards on the table
leadership skill today and.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
If there is will point.
Speaker 6 (00:30):
One hundred years of zed B with Mike Hosking.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Welcome to the one hundred Years of ZEDB podcast. In
the series, we'll be digging through the archives bringing you
the immense history of the iconic one zed B and
News Talk ZEDB. We'll bring the iconic names, the famous sounds,
the moments and the stories behind.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
Zed B.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Radio one ed Ogland.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
In this episode, we begin way back in the nineteen twenties.
The first radio broadcast in New Zealand occurred on November seventeen,
nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That was done by the physics.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Professor Robert Jack, who broadcast music in his voice from
the University of Otago from their A national broadcasting system
was set up in nineteen twenty five that enabled four
stations in the country's main centers known as they were
and run by the Broadcasting Service, but regulations allowed for
stations other than those run by the service. They became
known as the B stations. Now in Auckland, it was
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initially one YB, but on the ninth of August nineteen
twenty six, the call sign was changed to one ZEDB.
On that Monday night, one ZEDB had its first broadcast
between the hours of seven and ten PM.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But the station.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Struggled to survive for its first decade as government rules
and regulations effectively banned advertising, kept the station on low power,
and took it off air periodically for a breach of
the regulations. During that time, Reverend Colin Scrimcher or Uncle
scrim along with Thomas Garland or Uncle Tom, purchased the station. Eventually,
the government somewhat relented and allowed more broadcasting hours, so
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in May of nineteen thirty four it allowed just over
twenty four hours a week, so effectively one day a week.
Relief finally came in nineteen thirty five with the election
of the first Labor government under Michael Joseph Savage. The
government purchased all the B stations and created the National
Commercial Broadcasting Service and one's ITB was the first cab
off the rank, and then came the day, the twenty
(02:27):
sixth of October nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
This is one's ed B the feature station.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
To join me at the port of the bed troops.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
On the letter heads to Gold.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The day Ones he'd be as it became nine. For
more than fifty years was born. One of our original hosts.
Uncle scrim continued to make his mark with his friendly
road choir. It was only one year later the Ones
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he'd be host of the first outside broadcasting welcoming the
Pan American clipper plane to Auckland.
Speaker 10 (03:29):
He's just gliding freight in front now at about fifty
feet from the surface. He's just about the touchdown, a
glorious epic of Pan American Airways and the first commercial
or semi commercial fighter class the Pacific. He's just holding
off now and gliding down now. He's touch allows pleason
of a great glider class of Pacific.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
It's my privilege today on behalf of the government and
people of this country to give you a welcome from
the bottom of our hearts.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
In the words of a friend of.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Mine, You've done it again and you place the wholemark
on American efficiency, as well as on the skill of
yourself and your crewe. I congratulate you and welcome you.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Once it Be format grew throughout the country. Two Sidby
and Wellington opened April of nineteen thirty seven. Threes sid
Be in christ Church followed suit in September of that year,
and four zidb Be and Dunedin went to where in
October of nineteen thirty seven. Ones It'd Be also gave
us one of the country's very first household names, Mord
(04:41):
Ruby Besham, Aunt Daisy.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Good morning, everybody, good morning, everybody. Well, Now, if I
can only get in all the answers that for these
different recipes that have been sent for me, the Bee
Trip Chapney that somebody wants, I will give that quite
soon now, so be ready, because it's a new one
from England. It's one that I've got from England, and
it's and it is different from any of the Beatrix Challenges,
the ones of the book or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Aunt Daisy was the stap Long Ones It'd Be in
the whole network, hosting a variety morning program from nineteen
thirty six until shortly before her death in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We send our thanks to our loyal staff of six
hundred men and women of today and to all our listeners,
our sponsors and our advertisers who have always been such
a close part of us. And we look forward to
the future with its challenges, with its changes, and it's excited.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She was a famously fast talker for the time, averaging
around two hundred words per minute, while the usual radio
host was close to the one point fifty, and she
recalled how that made it a challenge for advertisers.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I remember the very first one purpose about the enemy
of Greece, you know, and then one about the steam
roly poly pudding.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
But it was being tied to time.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
That was so difficult for me to keep to our
one hundred word announcement. My husband said, bright, mother, that's impossible.
I've never even heard you ask for a cup of
tea in.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Mist and a thousand words.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
While once it'd be was fully commercial, it was still
a new thing for New Zealand, and there were challenges
for the station to get clients in the first place.
Speaker 11 (06:16):
We were trying to win our spurs, trying to be accepted.
We were looked on with some suspicion at first, chasing
advertisements here, there, and everywhere downside alleys too, I can
tell you. And consequently we had some bad accounts. I
was after outstanding debts at all hours, at times places
like all night cafes when most folks were asleep. Credit
(06:40):
had to be watched closely, and there was some hard punching.
Speaker 12 (06:43):
We're having great difficulty and persuading advertisers that the radio
session was not just so many inches in the newspaper.
They would give me long, uninteresting grocery lists to broadcast,
you know, things at two and eleven pence a yard
and one and sixpence.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Hte me apparent.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The clients did start coming in, which led.
Speaker 13 (07:02):
To forty five killing, to fifty five killing, four foot
for two pounds feet ninety five killing, lounge fuit for Guinea.
Speaker 14 (07:11):
The variety of design in bedroom, dining room and Chesterfield
sweet and in carpet will amaze you. Some of these
designs emphasized the ultra modern trend.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We started out getting thirty pounds a day in advertising.
In today's money, that's a little over five thousand dollars.
But things were about to dramatically change.
Speaker 15 (07:43):
I am c thankil calling it room from down next week.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
This morning the British embassador.
Speaker 15 (07:52):
In Berlin onmoed the German government the final note, thinking
that un left we hurt from them by eleven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
If they were prepared at.
Speaker 15 (08:04):
Well to withdraw that took from Tunnon, a.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Total war would be just finished.
Speaker 15 (08:12):
How can you now had now set undertaking this team
and a consequently this country is at no miss Charny.
Speaker 16 (08:22):
I am satisfied that nowhere will the issue be more
clearly understood than in New Zealand. We range ourselves without
fear beside Britain. Where she goes, we go, where she
stands we stand. We are only a small and young nation,
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but we are one and all a band of brothers,
and we march forward with a union of parts and
wills to a common destiny.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That meant some mighty changes. For once.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
It'd be but directed to do everything possible to minimum
scare or alarm. By maintaining normal schedules, you will maintain
a continuous listening watch.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
On two ya.
Speaker 17 (09:07):
All members of your staff are required to sign a
declaration of secrecy.
Speaker 11 (09:10):
From this date or broadcast material will be censored. Programs
will be interrupted for important war news as received. There
must be no reference to His Majesty's process.
Speaker 13 (09:18):
No broadcast greetings of any kind, cancel mail and shipping
announcements or add libed announcements and imprompture matter will cease immediately.
No visitors guard the transmitter, cancel weather approach, cancel community sings,
quizzes and add programs, Cancel interviews.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It didn't stop there.
Speaker 18 (09:34):
We were very conscious of the possibility of an attempt
to use the station to broadcast messages to the enemy
at irregular intervals. We used to take commercial copy and
scripts and completely alter the wording without altering the sense.
All scripted matter, including commercials, had to be at least
four days old before broadcast. To make sure nothing could
(09:55):
be done with musical records. We continually switched the duties
of our programs a systems and held all requests for
at least uptnight.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Once it be quickly became a source of comfort for
those back home, and famously, in October of nineteen forty
it launched a telephone appeal for injured and returned servicemen
from the war.
Speaker 17 (10:14):
This is Station one at be Auckland the time is
one of them in past ten and where the National
Commercial Broadcasting Service in New Zealand calling stations two that
be Wellington's Mesabe prits fose hab be done even and
two that a Palmerson offitus a is still on the air. Greetings,
fellow commercials and listeners everywhere. You have tuned in and
we thank you for your interest. You have tuned in
(10:34):
to this great effort in Auckland, and superlatives have lost
all meaning here, a great effort indeed on behalf of
the sick, wounded and distress. But Auckland Province concludes its
efforts to raise initially seven thousand pounds the total at
a quarter to nine we have no more recent total
(10:54):
to hand. The total at a quarter to nine to
night was twenty seven thousand, three hundred and seventy seven.
We have now twenty seven three hundred and seventy seven pounds.
Forty five telephone lines into the station have been jammed
blocked since seven thirty to night.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That appeal raised the equivalent of six million dollars in
today's money. And it wasn't just appeals the ones it'd
be Digger's concerts were famous for lifting the spirits.
Speaker 19 (11:20):
Different from most of our shows, this is a special
broad program for wounded returned men in the audience. I
can see our controller, mister scrimmature Rod Talbot. He's done
so much on Linigan Hecta, and I see how that is,
seeing that the wounded men are comfortably seated.
Speaker 13 (11:40):
Ladies and gentlemen who don't sound nice, fine, yeah, way
one need to use too much puff here.
Speaker 20 (11:48):
Now.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
It's a delight to be with you tonight. And I've
got a few little ditties for you, and I hope
you'll you'll receive them.
Speaker 14 (11:56):
Well.
Speaker 13 (11:58):
Now then, the first of all, it's a icuosque thing
entitled the Spirit of England. Hi, Henry, oh, the all
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to the spirit of me.
Speaker 21 (12:22):
I was hiding in the ammunition where hung midst the shot,
and shall I be when the war was or and
out once more?
Speaker 22 (12:35):
I was nowhere to be seen right there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It didn't stop there once to be welcome the return
of our servicemen, including the return of h M. M.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Z is Achilles to Auckland. After the Battle of the
River Plate.
Speaker 23 (13:20):
The first thing that happened was that the alarm signal
was sounded and all the sailor's blow had jump out
of their hammocks again. Drop the raiders that they hadn't
there and jump out of the bar and go up
there exten state and told that one so come a
third saying, if this is a captain's little joke, I
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don't think much of it. I had a little watch.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, the world was at war. Something big was happening.
For one would be itself. It was moving to a
flash new premise on Auckland's Durham Street. There was a
celebration now been declared in this posts open.
Speaker 24 (14:02):
We have a packed half on everyone right on their
terms for a non top priority program.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
It is there water vidinger one that'd be organ into
that brand new number hi neighbors.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, the celebration didn't last long and the station was
back to lifting the morale of a weary city once
it be kept New Zealanders in and now at every
juncture of the war, including broadcasting messages from soldiers, the.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Battle of Britain is about to begin.
Speaker 25 (14:33):
Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Let
us up brace ourselves to our duty, So bear ourselves
the gift the British Empire and its commonwealth last for
a thousand years.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Men will still say.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
This was their final power.
Speaker 26 (14:57):
None of the Mat sailors my enemy action.
Speaker 27 (15:02):
American ships have been sung, American airplanes have been described.
The Congas and the people of the United States have
accepted that Chounce UK number one under the command of
General Eisenhaher, and I therefore think supported my tongue. Airports
began landing at eight armies this morning on the Northern
(15:25):
Coulter fut.
Speaker 28 (15:27):
Hello, Madge, Graham, Barry, mother and Pop. Trusting you are
all keeping fit and well. I am doing all right
here enjoying the best of Darpring. Cheerio, the Harris family
and my good Caljian McGregor. Hope to be with you
all in the near future. Good boys, Graham and Barry,
keep it up all my eleven kisses, Mats, Cheerio Deart.
Speaker 29 (15:50):
Hello, ma'am, dead Man and Keith. Hope you are all
Cheerio at Wealth, I'm feeling fine. May arriving regularly. Thanks ma'am.
Look after yourself. Grind thoughts and love to you all. Hello,
Joan Willington, how are you, Sweethet, Always thinking of you.
Thanks for rigular mail. Love Darling. This wishes to family regards,
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eb Guest and west Coach cheerio until it was over
A dulls.
Speaker 30 (16:20):
Forty one am at General Eisenarow's headquarter terms General Joel
Works a representative of the German High Command and our
brand Admiral Durnitt the designated hood of the German Chase
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shign it the act of unconditional a seranda.
Speaker 31 (16:43):
It's my privilege today to call you together so that
we may thank Almighty God for his mercy in granting
us final and complete victory over the last enemies.
Speaker 32 (17:01):
We are in hundred litews microphone set up here and
this is a rotor endeavoring to bring to you some
idea of what is happening this afternoon in the heart
of Auckler.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
This has an amazing sight here in Queen Street.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Never have I seen a larger.
Speaker 22 (17:18):
Crowd or a more enthusiastic crowd than has gathered here.
Speaker 32 (17:22):
It's absolutely incredible that so many people could eat packed
into old Queens.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
For uniform How do you do?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Would you tell what you think about us?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Mid day?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Are you celebrating well?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
And truly you all right? I've had coned haup years.
Speaker 16 (17:37):
I'm on those tropical islands as I call them, and
believe you and I I've had quite a patient day,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
After the war, radio stations, including the Zimby network, got
back to business. By nineteen sixty one, one Zidby was
bringing in one thousand pounds a day or about twenty
nine and a half thousand dollars in a day's money.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Radio One's Ed b Auckland Next up.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Will bring you the moments, the names, and the sounds
of One's B.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Over the four decades following the war, one's ITB was
known as the all rounder station, being a bit of
everything to everyone. There were a myriad of personalities, myriad
of shows, and a myriad of different sounds, and started
with those behind the microphone and one of the originals
was Filled Shown the breakfast host from nineteen thirty nine
to nineteen fifty nine. It was known for his pranks
and delivered April Fool's jokes each and every year, like
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this one from nineteen forty six.
Speaker 33 (18:38):
Good morning, everybody, ELI is Station one's edb Auckland. We're
on the air at this earlier and we're about to
present this very special broadcast dealing with radar transmission that
you heard about so much recently. Now, radar waves transmitted
from the Earth to the Moon have been echoed back.
Speaker 22 (19:00):
Experiments have been going on locally here in New Zealand,
and the results in this case have been even more
astounding and astonishing. We've obtained the collaboration of a special
experimental station listeners in arranging this broadcast, the purpose of
which is to demonstrate to you the amazing things that
(19:20):
have been achieved just within the last few weeks here
in our own little country. Now, at this very moment,
I'm standing in the radar experimental station where the technicians
are standing by a distinguished visitor. Professor May of the
Mount Olive Observatory is present and has kindly consented to
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take charge of this experiment this morning. Well already, yes,
I think we're already.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Now, well, here we go.
Speaker 34 (19:48):
Then, well there's something coming through, but it doesn't seem
to be coming through too well, Professor, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well we may have to make some small adjustments.
Speaker 35 (20:20):
Misters.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Is extraordinary.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
It sounds extraordinary on the earphone.
Speaker 35 (20:25):
If you heard it, professor, did you?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I did hear it.
Speaker 22 (20:28):
Well, this is a great moment.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Listeners.
Speaker 33 (20:30):
Do you think we can play that record of the listeners?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes, yes, we will play it now.
Speaker 22 (20:44):
Good with your calendar.
Speaker 36 (20:45):
Look at your calendar. Look at your calendar. Look at
your calendar. Look at your calendar. Look at your calendar.
Look at your calendar. Look at your calendar. Look at
your calendar.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He became almost infamous with his nineteen forty nine prank
after convincing Auckland a massive mild wide wasp swarm was
heading towards the city. It caused widespread panic, leading listeners
to see all their homes and jam police phone lines.
Unfortunately there's no recording of that day, but Phil did
reminisce years later.
Speaker 37 (21:21):
I turned it, doubted it, and kept selling, bringing all
those bits of about putting in a jam on, put
the jam on paper and put outside. And it's the
wisest if you see them. The wisest thing to do
is to light down flat and keep still, don't move.
And my boy, as around your trous.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Election know if you had blond trousers, And actually people
were doing it.
Speaker 37 (21:43):
And so as I got towards eight o' clark, PAPIs
still come out and it's begging.
Speaker 35 (21:46):
With me to close.
Speaker 37 (21:47):
And I said, nah, for the high jump now, so
I might as well do it well.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Phansh it well.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Another key boye from the early years was Joscelyn par
known by her Monica Maringa. She hosted the likes of
the Shopping Reporters Session, the Home Life Session, and the Women's.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
There you don't mind being interviewed? Oh no, no, do
you like me?
Speaker 14 (22:08):
You've done quite this.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I haven't done to How many people have told me?
How many people have you interviewed? Oh I'm sorry, I
can't remember.
Speaker 35 (22:15):
How try?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh several thousand people.
Speaker 13 (22:20):
What was what was your most embarrassing moment in an
interview part from this home I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I think when I really can't remember when a very
famous lady said she was going to dry up before
we had and we were about to have a national hooker.
What do I shook her? I just I'm interviewing you,
I think, am I.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, tell us about this famous lady after, I should.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Tell you about her afterwards.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Marina became such an institution.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Often after a show, her son would drive her down
Queen Street, where she was met by adoring.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Fans radio ones. He'd be Auckland.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
The other studio icon from one D be, of course,
MERV Smith, who took over the breakfast slot. In nineteen
sixty one. His show was known for delivering a somewhat
irreverent program. He had his sidekick mcarrey, the Scottish Spider.
Speaker 33 (23:16):
Oh really Christmas to you all?
Speaker 38 (23:20):
Oh McCarry, Oh for a Scottish spider, you look ridiculous.
Whether where the big black boots aren't my word? And
also the the red jacket and the red hat, and
you've got a bit of cotton wall around your face.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Pitty left you killed on looks a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 39 (23:36):
I needn't mind name.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm going up to an Ashka.
Speaker 40 (23:38):
Why are you going to an askar McCary, I'm going
to I'm shaded clause.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Prepare the Christmas story's mate, boy, I think that'd be
a nice job for me. Where are you going? Alaska?
But but Santa Claus doesn't live about there? Oh but
what about his wife?
Speaker 40 (23:51):
His wife Missus Christmas, him Mary Christmas. She'd go there,
wouldn't she? Well, Alaska, Alaska? You Norman, No, I'm not
absolutely sure. It's Witch of Palaces up there.
Speaker 41 (24:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
He wasn't afraid of doing voices either, talking about the
Herpie Golf Club.
Speaker 38 (24:04):
Heard a funny story about them the other day lady
member came into the golf club and she was and
since she said, look to the club secretary, you will
have to go and do something about the tramp and
the secretaries of the tramp. Which tramp she said, Well,
he said he's he's made a sort of little bovy
down down there by the by the sixth hole, you know,
the bushes and things that it's absolutely dreadful. He's scruffy, disgusting,
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and he certainly doesn't do much for the club. So
the golf secretary goes down to the seventh and sure
enough there he is. He said, Oi, and the boke sit.
He said, off, get off, quick, get up, And the
bloke said, that's mad, that's isn't it. Secret said, what
do you mean? He said, that's a lovely way to
get any members.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Move held the slot for Ones that'd be until January
of nineteen eighty seven, and even on his last broadcast
it wasn't about him from all.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Of us on the Early Bird Show to all my
friends and colleagues for.
Speaker 38 (24:54):
Thirty years on One's dby good morning, God bless have
a nice today.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
SHH Radio Ones, it'd be Auckland.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
During the early years Ones it'd be.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Many of our broadcasts didn't come from the studio but
the famous ZIDB Theater at Broadcasting House in Central Auckland,
and from there came some of the iconic game shows.
We're talking having a Shot, It's in the Bag, and
the mobile song QUISTI sid's.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Eat the bag.
Speaker 42 (25:31):
I'm sure that you know how to handle a phototype,
and I don't want you to squirt till I tell
you what to do a minute tomorrow night. So to
sip them it makes me thirsty, Arthur, old boy, You've
got to do a little bit of acting here. I
want you to repeat after me, made this blood of love,
thy summer's ripening breath. Paul, I know, give the fair
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proved to me the most beauteous flower. When next we
meet them, I want to do those actions, you know,
and nothing Hammy.
Speaker 18 (26:27):
That was Donald Jack of Dunedin, the National prize winner
of the nineteen fifty six Morbul Song Quest.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
These made the likes of Selwyn, to Goodney and Watkins
local celebrities and became the sound of one It'd be
during the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Coronets of England.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
The other sound that defined the early years were the
radio dramas. We're talking the likes of the Coronets of England,
Fred and Maggie, Everybody, Doctor paul A, Nightbeat.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
Posha Faces Life, the story of a courageous and beautiful woman.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Eventually, these dramas were challenged by the mass adoption of
television and were phased out in a swap for more
music and radio personalities. Another big part of the station
is put simply the commercials.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Broke my denture, broke my denture?
Speaker 43 (27:29):
Woe is me?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
What shall I do?
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Take it into mister gardness, and you fix it just
like you.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And you don't have to wait.
Speaker 43 (27:39):
Perfect craftsmanship, latest equipment and over twenty thousand teeth to
choose from, will assure your complete satisfaction. Mister Garris guarantees
all work for six months.
Speaker 44 (27:51):
Watch the address, Watch the address, hurry please and tell
me do top.
Speaker 41 (27:56):
Of Queen Street on the corner.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And the numbers nine two That particular ad forget us
dental renovations, thirsty and nineteen fifty and remained on air
for more than thirty years. But the style and sound
are the ones that'd be commercials changed over the years.
Speaker 12 (28:13):
Will it change over to dollars and cents be sudden
or gradual?
Speaker 45 (28:17):
Will shops handle both old and new currencies?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
What will the highest note be in dollars?
Speaker 46 (28:23):
And a last read the fact about decimal currency in
the informative booklet Decimal Currency and you delivered to you soon.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Will Here is another Nestles not surveys test.
Speaker 26 (28:35):
Question number one is why do you prefer Nestles not
rolled to any other rival chocolate ad bars?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Because I haven't plasted the others.
Speaker 26 (28:41):
What does a nice nutty snap do for you? And
if you had one, would you I would take it?
Should they be fully available to all age groups?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I would think so?
Speaker 26 (28:48):
Would you swear by a nutty snap?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I never swear To all the good folk of the
Auckland District who made our Easter egg appel such a
great success. Thank you the Broadcasting house for her literally
overad with chocolate googs by your generosity and the combined
efforts of the Lions Club thousands sees thousands of leady
Aucklanders and not only the kids either, who'd otherwise have
been forgot. Ladista enjoyed the thrill of being remembered what
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red and white and arrives at a sligh at Lyndmore
Shopping Center today you guessed again, Santa Clause of course,
making his first Christmas appearance and a flourish of fun
and excitement. Be there at Lynnmoll eleven o'clock this morning
and see Sata's arrival and then have the kids photographed
on his knee when he takes up residents in the
mall extension. He'll be there every day now until Christmas
ten am to midday, twelve forty five to four pm
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and six to eight pm on late nights.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Santa, and He's at Lynmoll's Shopping Center in newly.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Next here about how one's it'd be still kept Aucklander's
up to dope with the big events here and around
the world.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Whatever it is you want to though you're bound here
on maby.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
One's a bet use weather, sports, travel services, CA information
is wasting right on top of everything on.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
ONE'SB. After all, isn't that that we're here for?
Speaker 20 (30:11):
Is con.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Just because one z ITB was predominantly a lifestyle, music
and comedy station, we were still there covering the news
and the issues that define generations. We've n covered the
general election of nineteen forty six, and here.
Speaker 33 (30:28):
Are from three booths in the Remoe electorate. We have
the following results Algae National one thy three hundred and
eighty four and Freeman Labor nine hundred and fifty three.
That's from three booths from Remoerra Algae one three eighty
four and Freeman Labor nine hundred and fifty three. Now
from Only Hunger two booths results Osburn Labor six hundred
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and fifty two and King National four hundred and seventy
one from Only Hunger. That's two boots Osbon six hundred
and fifty two and King four hundred and seven be one.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
One of the first big international stories we covered was
the application of King Edward the Eighth.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You must believe me when I tell you.
Speaker 47 (31:12):
That I have found it impossible to carry the heavy
burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king
as I would wish to do, but how to help
and support of the world eye lie.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
The coverage extended to moments of national tragedy like the
Tonguawai rail disaster. On Christmas Eve of nineteen fifty three.
Queen Elizabeth was on her first tour of the country
at the time, and devoted her Christmas message to the victims.
Speaker 41 (31:45):
I know that there is no one in New Zealand,
and indeed throughout the Commonwealth who will not join with
my husband and me in sending to those who warn
a message of empathy in the loss. I pray that
they and all who have been injured, may be comforted
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and strengthened.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It wasn't until nineteen sixty two that one did be
made the decision to bring news bulletins into the Breakfast
show with merv Smith, and the events kept coming. There
was the Waheni disaster of nineteen sixty eight, which ones
had be carried constant updates on the.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Death toll from the stricken. Fury in Wellington Harbor is
rising steeply.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
A few moments ago it was visible, clearly visible from
the shore, and it appeared to be moving slowly backwards
towards the rocks a few hundred yards from the shore.
Speaker 22 (32:38):
The Wahene is rolling frightfully in the heavy swell in
the harbor.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
It's list in creases and then it goes back, but
it never reaches perpendicular Againwahany is now lying practically on
its side.
Speaker 20 (32:52):
Quarterflack remains. Only half of the lifeboats on the Waheni
were actually lowered before the ship lifted. It's gone away
evidently okay. But on the other side the list was
so great that the lifeboats were high in the water,
out of the water, in fact on top of the
ship once that's listed, and were unable to be lowered
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into the water.
Speaker 37 (33:13):
How do you feel now, A look that the area glad,
it's all over hung well to tell us what it
was like when you notice came to a vend and ship.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
Oh well, statalist fairly barely, and I thought.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
It wouldn't be long.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Like many people in up in the water quite a
few years.
Speaker 11 (33:27):
One of the stewarts helping the boys the ward Heaven
Willner water Fell Industries.
Speaker 48 (33:31):
I may ever think the tens of Maple has been
the blackest day in Wellington's history, the tragedy of the
Wahini which is now lying being founded by scenes in
the shallows by the pinnacle rock in the harbor lying
on his side.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
We kept the audience up today through wars like the Korean,
Vietnam and Cold Wars. The station carried this statement from
Prime Minister Keith Holyoake on the Vietnam War in nineteen
sixty five.
Speaker 44 (33:57):
New Zealand's vital interested in this war. The fate of
South Vietnam will help to determine the future of Malaysia,
Thailand and the other small nations of the area, and
New Zealand's own security is the involved. The people of
South Vietnam must be supported in their struggle against communist aggression,
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and we are determined to give to sport to those
who desire to bring about negotiations and a peaceful settlement
of this vital problem.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Once zbe kept audiences up to day during the country's
worst aviation disaster and its fallout.
Speaker 24 (34:36):
Tail section of the DC ten is intact, but it
is empty. There is no sign of life among or
near the wreckage.
Speaker 49 (34:42):
It appears there was an explosion on impact. It must
have gone in very hard and so and things happened
very quickly after that. I think that's the important thing,
though there's certainly no survivors.
Speaker 24 (34:54):
Three well experienced mountaineers from New Zealand's Scott Base were
earlier dropped near the crash site by United State's helicopter,
but were unable to reach the site by foot. The
helicopter was not able to land due to thirty nine
wins and a thirty five degree slow. The area is
badly crevassed, and two large crevasses beyond the rear of
the aircraft appear to have been opened up by the
force of the impact.
Speaker 45 (35:14):
As many bodies as are possible, take them to start
base for identification and subsequently back to New Zealand. There
are serious allegations relating to the Chief Executive's integrity and
that of other senior employees. These finally's findings were totally
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rejected by the board because we know the people concerned.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
It wasn't just covering the disasters. Ones it be celebrated
at the moments that stopped the nation as well.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Ones it be couldn't.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Resist being caught up in beetles fever in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Either, Oh, you had a pretty wild reception here at
the hotel.
Speaker 50 (35:51):
True, yeah, a very good. A young pillet jumped up
on State and grabbed that puberty. What I'm singing?
Speaker 35 (35:57):
How does it feel? Do you think the thing was
going to get out of hand?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
No?
Speaker 51 (36:00):
You know, kafooling is when you look at them, you know,
fellows and the girl who jump up, you realize they're
not going to but you know and you know they're
not They're not trying to get you, really, they're just
coming up to Fay.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well, you know these three young ladies got in here.
Speaker 50 (36:15):
I don't know how Julia cana and clicked one.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
How do you do?
Speaker 20 (36:21):
I'm talking.
Speaker 13 (36:22):
I'm hoping my hand with you.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Are they are a little overall? A little overall?
Speaker 50 (36:27):
You looked quite confident today, Bringo. Have you heard this
record that the Howard Morrison group here in New zeal
And they've got a big kid with cord I want
to cut your hair?
Speaker 30 (36:35):
No, not yet.
Speaker 52 (36:36):
I've heard all about it, though they could.
Speaker 50 (36:38):
Have you heard it? I happened, but everybody's talking, everybody's tone,
but nobody seems to have heard it.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Anyway, tell them not aloud for Bard, not that dude.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Like the Risk of New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
We're on tinder hooks waiting to see if Sir Edmund
Hillary would conquer Everest. And we got word from the
Prime Minister June the second, nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 44 (37:03):
And now, though it will break into the normal program
of this service, I'm able to announce.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
That a news flash has just come through advising us that.
Speaker 29 (37:18):
The New Zealand now Hillary has succeeded in conquering malt Everest.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
The station has a long history of covering a royal
family visit that included Jenny Goodwin on the streets of
Auckland for the Queen's nineteen seventy four tour.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
Good morning everyone, or shall I say a good afternoon
because it hurt me the Sunday afternoon A wonderfully.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Day or two Greece?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Are we all visited here in Queen Street where I'm
rere counting to you from opposite the Cinerama Theater.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
The ray party had now asived.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
And that offense have to call him their receivings from
the card.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Here, Like many stations around the world, once it'd be
ran constant updates on the assess nation of John F.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Kennedy.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Malcom Kilduff, the acting White House Press Secretary, issued the
following announcement at nineteen hours thirty five GMT. President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy died at approximately one pm Simple Standard time,
nineteen hours GMT today here in Dallas. He died of
a gunshot wound in the brain.
Speaker 52 (38:24):
I find it impossible to find words adequate to describe
my feelings of shock and sadness at this pointless assassination
of one of the world's greatest leaders.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Then we hit to one of the most turbulent times
in our country's history. The nineteen eighty one springboard to him.
Once it be carried reports from throughout the country on
the unrest.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Ascelia hearing is the.
Speaker 37 (38:47):
Sound of police batty's weighing down shields and crash almost
the protesters.
Speaker 39 (38:52):
Protesters regrouped themselves just officted the police lined a short
time ago and made a chart.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
A number of policemen have lost their helmets appeared. I've
lost their batons as well.
Speaker 13 (39:04):
One aunty to a protestant, Mister Burns has taken a
four year old with him.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Why does the child have to be in the march.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
It's a question of now or the future.
Speaker 53 (39:12):
Would have rather if he got killed?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
A relish?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
You bad now?
Speaker 33 (39:14):
Then the concentration cam.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Look, I went through two world Lewis.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
You sacrifice a child?
Speaker 26 (39:18):
Sacrifice a child for they say their ten thousand other
children in the future.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Hope on right into the middle of the all blacks.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
One of them's gone down.
Speaker 11 (39:25):
Gary Knight taken right in the head by one of
those packets of flower.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Flatten straight down to the ground.
Speaker 41 (39:32):
The reports that policemen really were out of control and
the aggression they used against individual people, pummeling into them,
beating them.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
How do you feel about this? Were your men out
of control at any stage?
Speaker 35 (39:43):
Absolutely nonsense.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Thready again I must repeat to you.
Speaker 35 (39:46):
And it was a near riot situation.
Speaker 39 (39:48):
I think it's very difficult when someone's abusing you to
your face and people are shouting and screaming in front
of you to concentrate on what's happening. When they visibly
confront the police and spit in their faces, you wonder
just why they're there. It destroys their credibility, really know.
The South African jumbo craft lumbered into the air. There
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were scenes of wild dubilation be bought it in Bomia.
Some of the fighting protiff what they were thinking, I'll relieved.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
It, it's all over.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Can you go alad and see that plane go?
Speaker 13 (40:26):
How do you feel that?
Speaker 6 (40:27):
I'm pleased they've gone, and I hope I don't come
back again.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
One of the biggest events ones to be covered was
the infamous bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
This was nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 9 (40:36):
Explosions rang out from the forty meter ship at about midnight,
and the crew scrambled to get off the vessel to
safety as she began going under, but one crew member
was caught below decks and police recovered his body early
this morning.
Speaker 50 (40:48):
We know was that between the first and second explosions
he went back aboard, presumably to retrieve his camera here.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
And he never made it out.
Speaker 46 (40:58):
Wolfside chatter is that the vestl was carrying nothing potentially
explosive on board, so suspicion mounts that the sinking was
an act of sabotage. Divers are now surveying the hull
of the former Truler and they're trying to establish whether
the blast came from inside or outside the vessel.
Speaker 13 (41:15):
We can take it from that that there's been an explosion,
probably on the outside of the vessel.
Speaker 50 (41:19):
From the beat to information, I have anage of who
did it, and I know from the beach to information
I have why it's done.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
A man and a woman will appear in the Yorklan
District Court at k am tomorrow morning. They will appear
on charges of murder, arsen and conspiracy with arson.
Speaker 53 (41:37):
There's been a sensation at the Rainbow Warrior Court hearing
in autumn. This morning, with the two French army officers
admitting their involvement in the bombing and the death of
one of the protest boat's crew members, we now go
to the courtrooms and reporter Ian Bernie.
Speaker 54 (41:50):
The sensational move came after the Crown dropped the murder
charges against them and substituted those charges with charges of manslaughter.
The couple were formerly identified in court for the first
time as French Army officers Captain Frederick Prieer and Major
Allen Marthaire. I would say this for the first step
of justice, but there's still a lot of other agents
and the French government that should be responsible and should
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have been in for it today.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
As you know today, our talk about shows often host
political leaders to take questions from listeners. That tradition actually
dates back to nineteen eighty four when both David Longie
and Sir Rob Muldoon came into the studio.
Speaker 55 (42:25):
I'll ask you the next question now from Paul lawson
of Parnell, who says, will you retire if National loses
the election or will you continue in Parliament as leader
of the Opposition.
Speaker 45 (42:36):
Oh, I'd continue. I don't think we're going to lose.
By the way, you have an awful lot of advertisements
on this program, don't you. I've never heard anyments in
all my life.
Speaker 55 (42:47):
Well, what's the first priority of a labor government next week?
Speaker 35 (42:51):
The first priority is to be very, very measured in
our response to the change of government. There is not
going to be a wholesale disruption and dipmomatic posts. Those
things are not the priority.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Thank you for your time this well, thank you.
Speaker 55 (43:07):
Back to the advertisements.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, I'm afraid happy birthday on it.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
You seem to have been here always for me.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Fifty Despite getting to the half century once, It'd Be
was facing some trouble.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Ratings were on the slide.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Mersemiths sensationally resigned from his breakfast spot to head to
a competitor, and the audience was growing weary of the
all rounder station. So the powers that be decided to
make a major change, which we will bring you in
the next episode.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I might asking catch you next time.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Hu's Talk Radio one's He'd b
Good morning everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Corruption Jersey completely dismissed out of hand by the way
and bus.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You'll see, well, speaking of common sense, there isn't a
great deal of it. Same arrangement will turn out to
be a deserter.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Fighting a battle against people who just keep dismissing your place.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So you have on put your cards on the table
leadership skill today and.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
If there is will point.
Speaker 6 (00:30):
One hundred years of zed B with Mike Hosking.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Welcome to the one hundred Years of ZEDB podcast. In
the series, we'll be digging through the archives bringing you
the immense history of the iconic one zed B and
News Talk ZEDB. We'll bring the iconic names, the famous sounds,
the moments and the stories behind.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
Zed B.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Radio one ed Ogland.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
In this episode, we begin way back in the nineteen twenties.
The first radio broadcast in New Zealand occurred on November seventeen,
nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That was done by the physics.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Professor Robert Jack, who broadcast music in his voice from
the University of Otago from their A national broadcasting system
was set up in nineteen twenty five that enabled four
stations in the country's main centers known as they were
and run by the Broadcasting Service, but regulations allowed for
stations other than those run by the service. They became
known as the B stations. Now in Auckland, it was
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initially one YB, but on the ninth of August nineteen
twenty six, the call sign was changed to one ZEDB.
On that Monday night, one ZEDB had its first broadcast
between the hours of seven and ten PM.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But the station.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Struggled to survive for its first decade as government rules
and regulations effectively banned advertising, kept the station on low power,
and took it off air periodically for a breach of
the regulations. During that time, Reverend Colin Scrimcher or Uncle
scrim along with Thomas Garland or Uncle Tom, purchased the station. Eventually,
the government somewhat relented and allowed more broadcasting hours, so
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in May of nineteen thirty four it allowed just over
twenty four hours a week, so effectively one day a week.
Relief finally came in nineteen thirty five with the election
of the first Labor government under Michael Joseph Savage. The
government purchased all the B stations and created the National
Commercial Broadcasting Service and one's ITB was the first cab
off the rank, and then came the day, the twenty
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sixth of October nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
This is one's ed B the feature station.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
To join me at the port of the bed troops.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
On the letter heads to Gold.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The day Ones he'd be as it became nine. For
more than fifty years was born. One of our original hosts.
Uncle scrim continued to make his mark with his friendly
road choir. It was only one year later the Ones
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he'd be host of the first outside broadcasting welcoming the
Pan American clipper plane to Auckland.
Speaker 10 (03:29):
He's just gliding freight in front now at about fifty
feet from the surface. He's just about the touchdown, a
glorious epic of Pan American Airways and the first commercial
or semi commercial fighter class the Pacific. He's just holding
off now and gliding down now. He's touch allows pleason
of a great glider class of Pacific.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
It's my privilege today on behalf of the government and
people of this country to give you a welcome from
the bottom of our hearts.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
In the words of a friend of.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Mine, You've done it again and you place the wholemark
on American efficiency, as well as on the skill of
yourself and your crewe. I congratulate you and welcome you.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Once it Be format grew throughout the country. Two Sidby
and Wellington opened April of nineteen thirty seven. Threes sid
Be in christ Church followed suit in September of that year,
and four zidb Be and Dunedin went to where in
October of nineteen thirty seven. Ones It'd Be also gave
us one of the country's very first household names, Mord
(04:41):
Ruby Besham, Aunt Daisy.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Good morning, everybody, good morning, everybody. Well, Now, if I
can only get in all the answers that for these
different recipes that have been sent for me, the Bee
Trip Chapney that somebody wants, I will give that quite
soon now, so be ready, because it's a new one
from England. It's one that I've got from England, and
it's and it is different from any of the Beatrix Challenges,
the ones of the book or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Aunt Daisy was the stap Long Ones It'd Be in
the whole network, hosting a variety morning program from nineteen
thirty six until shortly before her death in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We send our thanks to our loyal staff of six
hundred men and women of today and to all our listeners,
our sponsors and our advertisers who have always been such
a close part of us. And we look forward to
the future with its challenges, with its changes, and it's excited.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She was a famously fast talker for the time, averaging
around two hundred words per minute, while the usual radio
host was close to the one point fifty, and she
recalled how that made it a challenge for advertisers.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I remember the very first one purpose about the enemy
of Greece, you know, and then one about the steam
roly poly pudding.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
But it was being tied to time.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
That was so difficult for me to keep to our
one hundred word announcement. My husband said, bright, mother, that's impossible.
I've never even heard you ask for a cup of
tea in.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Mist and a thousand words.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
While once it'd be was fully commercial, it was still
a new thing for New Zealand, and there were challenges
for the station to get clients in the first place.
Speaker 11 (06:16):
We were trying to win our spurs, trying to be accepted.
We were looked on with some suspicion at first, chasing
advertisements here, there, and everywhere downside alleys too, I can
tell you. And consequently we had some bad accounts. I
was after outstanding debts at all hours, at times places
like all night cafes when most folks were asleep. Credit
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had to be watched closely, and there was some hard punching.
Speaker 12 (06:43):
We're having great difficulty and persuading advertisers that the radio
session was not just so many inches in the newspaper.
They would give me long, uninteresting grocery lists to broadcast,
you know, things at two and eleven pence a yard
and one and sixpence.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Hte me apparent.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The clients did start coming in, which led.
Speaker 13 (07:02):
To forty five killing, to fifty five killing, four foot
for two pounds feet ninety five killing, lounge fuit for Guinea.
Speaker 14 (07:11):
The variety of design in bedroom, dining room and Chesterfield
sweet and in carpet will amaze you. Some of these
designs emphasized the ultra modern trend.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We started out getting thirty pounds a day in advertising.
In today's money, that's a little over five thousand dollars.
But things were about to dramatically change.
Speaker 15 (07:43):
I am c thankil calling it room from down next week.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
This morning the British embassador.
Speaker 15 (07:52):
In Berlin onmoed the German government the final note, thinking
that un left we hurt from them by eleven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
If they were prepared at.
Speaker 15 (08:04):
Well to withdraw that took from Tunnon, a.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Total war would be just finished.
Speaker 15 (08:12):
How can you now had now set undertaking this team
and a consequently this country is at no miss Charny.
Speaker 16 (08:22):
I am satisfied that nowhere will the issue be more
clearly understood than in New Zealand. We range ourselves without
fear beside Britain. Where she goes, we go, where she
stands we stand. We are only a small and young nation,
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but we are one and all a band of brothers,
and we march forward with a union of parts and
wills to a common destiny.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That meant some mighty changes. For once.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
It'd be but directed to do everything possible to minimum
scare or alarm. By maintaining normal schedules, you will maintain
a continuous listening watch.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
On two ya.
Speaker 17 (09:07):
All members of your staff are required to sign a
declaration of secrecy.
Speaker 11 (09:10):
From this date or broadcast material will be censored. Programs
will be interrupted for important war news as received. There
must be no reference to His Majesty's process.
Speaker 13 (09:18):
No broadcast greetings of any kind, cancel mail and shipping
announcements or add libed announcements and imprompture matter will cease immediately.
No visitors guard the transmitter, cancel weather approach, cancel community sings,
quizzes and add programs, Cancel interviews.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It didn't stop there.
Speaker 18 (09:34):
We were very conscious of the possibility of an attempt
to use the station to broadcast messages to the enemy
at irregular intervals. We used to take commercial copy and
scripts and completely alter the wording without altering the sense.
All scripted matter, including commercials, had to be at least
four days old before broadcast. To make sure nothing could
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be done with musical records. We continually switched the duties
of our programs a systems and held all requests for
at least uptnight.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Once it be quickly became a source of comfort for
those back home, and famously, in October of nineteen forty
it launched a telephone appeal for injured and returned servicemen
from the war.
Speaker 17 (10:14):
This is Station one at be Auckland the time is
one of them in past ten and where the National
Commercial Broadcasting Service in New Zealand calling stations two that
be Wellington's Mesabe prits fose hab be done even and
two that a Palmerson offitus a is still on the air. Greetings,
fellow commercials and listeners everywhere. You have tuned in and
we thank you for your interest. You have tuned in
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to this great effort in Auckland, and superlatives have lost
all meaning here, a great effort indeed on behalf of
the sick, wounded and distress. But Auckland Province concludes its
efforts to raise initially seven thousand pounds the total at
a quarter to nine we have no more recent total
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to hand. The total at a quarter to nine to
night was twenty seven thousand, three hundred and seventy seven.
We have now twenty seven three hundred and seventy seven pounds.
Forty five telephone lines into the station have been jammed
blocked since seven thirty to night.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That appeal raised the equivalent of six million dollars in
today's money. And it wasn't just appeals the ones it'd
be Digger's concerts were famous for lifting the spirits.
Speaker 19 (11:20):
Different from most of our shows, this is a special
broad program for wounded returned men in the audience. I
can see our controller, mister scrimmature Rod Talbot. He's done
so much on Linigan Hecta, and I see how that is,
seeing that the wounded men are comfortably seated.
Speaker 13 (11:40):
Ladies and gentlemen who don't sound nice, fine, yeah, way
one need to use too much puff here.
Speaker 20 (11:48):
Now.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
It's a delight to be with you tonight. And I've
got a few little ditties for you, and I hope
you'll you'll receive them.
Speaker 14 (11:56):
Well.
Speaker 13 (11:58):
Now then, the first of all, it's a icuosque thing
entitled the Spirit of England. Hi, Henry, oh, the all
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to the spirit of me.
Speaker 21 (12:22):
I was hiding in the ammunition where hung midst the shot,
and shall I be when the war was or and
out once more?
Speaker 22 (12:35):
I was nowhere to be seen right there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It didn't stop there once to be welcome the return
of our servicemen, including the return of h M. M.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Z is Achilles to Auckland. After the Battle of the
River Plate.
Speaker 23 (13:20):
The first thing that happened was that the alarm signal
was sounded and all the sailor's blow had jump out
of their hammocks again. Drop the raiders that they hadn't
there and jump out of the bar and go up
there exten state and told that one so come a
third saying, if this is a captain's little joke, I
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don't think much of it. I had a little watch.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, the world was at war. Something big was happening.
For one would be itself. It was moving to a
flash new premise on Auckland's Durham Street. There was a
celebration now been declared in this posts open.
Speaker 24 (14:02):
We have a packed half on everyone right on their
terms for a non top priority program.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
It is there water vidinger one that'd be organ into
that brand new number hi neighbors.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, the celebration didn't last long and the station was
back to lifting the morale of a weary city once
it be kept New Zealanders in and now at every
juncture of the war, including broadcasting messages from soldiers, the.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Battle of Britain is about to begin.
Speaker 25 (14:33):
Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Let
us up brace ourselves to our duty, So bear ourselves
the gift the British Empire and its commonwealth last for
a thousand years.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Men will still say.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
This was their final power.
Speaker 26 (14:57):
None of the Mat sailors my enemy action.
Speaker 27 (15:02):
American ships have been sung, American airplanes have been described.
The Congas and the people of the United States have
accepted that Chounce UK number one under the command of
General Eisenhaher, and I therefore think supported my tongue. Airports
began landing at eight armies this morning on the Northern
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Coulter fut.
Speaker 28 (15:27):
Hello, Madge, Graham, Barry, mother and Pop. Trusting you are
all keeping fit and well. I am doing all right
here enjoying the best of Darpring. Cheerio, the Harris family
and my good Caljian McGregor. Hope to be with you
all in the near future. Good boys, Graham and Barry,
keep it up all my eleven kisses, Mats, Cheerio Deart.
Speaker 29 (15:50):
Hello, ma'am, dead Man and Keith. Hope you are all
Cheerio at Wealth, I'm feeling fine. May arriving regularly. Thanks ma'am.
Look after yourself. Grind thoughts and love to you all. Hello,
Joan Willington, how are you, Sweethet, Always thinking of you.
Thanks for rigular mail. Love Darling. This wishes to family regards,
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eb Guest and west Coach cheerio until it was over
A dulls.
Speaker 30 (16:20):
Forty one am at General Eisenarow's headquarter terms General Joel
Works a representative of the German High Command and our
brand Admiral Durnitt the designated hood of the German Chase
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shign it the act of unconditional a seranda.
Speaker 31 (16:43):
It's my privilege today to call you together so that
we may thank Almighty God for his mercy in granting
us final and complete victory over the last enemies.
Speaker 32 (17:01):
We are in hundred litews microphone set up here and
this is a rotor endeavoring to bring to you some
idea of what is happening this afternoon in the heart
of Auckler.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
This has an amazing sight here in Queen Street.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Never have I seen a larger.
Speaker 22 (17:18):
Crowd or a more enthusiastic crowd than has gathered here.
Speaker 32 (17:22):
It's absolutely incredible that so many people could eat packed
into old Queens.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
For uniform How do you do?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Would you tell what you think about us?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Mid day?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Are you celebrating well?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
And truly you all right? I've had coned haup years.
Speaker 16 (17:37):
I'm on those tropical islands as I call them, and
believe you and I I've had quite a patient day,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
After the war, radio stations, including the Zimby network, got
back to business. By nineteen sixty one, one Zidby was
bringing in one thousand pounds a day or about twenty
nine and a half thousand dollars in a day's money.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Radio One's Ed b Auckland Next up.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Will bring you the moments, the names, and the sounds
of One's B.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Over the four decades following the war, one's ITB was
known as the all rounder station, being a bit of
everything to everyone. There were a myriad of personalities, myriad
of shows, and a myriad of different sounds, and started
with those behind the microphone and one of the originals
was Filled Shown the breakfast host from nineteen thirty nine
to nineteen fifty nine. It was known for his pranks
and delivered April Fool's jokes each and every year, like
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this one from nineteen forty six.
Speaker 33 (18:38):
Good morning, everybody, ELI is Station one's edb Auckland. We're
on the air at this earlier and we're about to
present this very special broadcast dealing with radar transmission that
you heard about so much recently. Now, radar waves transmitted
from the Earth to the Moon have been echoed back.
Speaker 22 (19:00):
Experiments have been going on locally here in New Zealand,
and the results in this case have been even more
astounding and astonishing. We've obtained the collaboration of a special
experimental station listeners in arranging this broadcast, the purpose of
which is to demonstrate to you the amazing things that
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have been achieved just within the last few weeks here
in our own little country. Now, at this very moment,
I'm standing in the radar experimental station where the technicians
are standing by a distinguished visitor. Professor May of the
Mount Olive Observatory is present and has kindly consented to
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take charge of this experiment this morning. Well already, yes,
I think we're already.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Now, well, here we go.
Speaker 34 (19:48):
Then, well there's something coming through, but it doesn't seem
to be coming through too well, Professor, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well we may have to make some small adjustments.
Speaker 35 (20:20):
Misters.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Is extraordinary.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
It sounds extraordinary on the earphone.
Speaker 35 (20:25):
If you heard it, professor, did you?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I did hear it.
Speaker 22 (20:28):
Well, this is a great moment.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Listeners.
Speaker 33 (20:30):
Do you think we can play that record of the listeners?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes, yes, we will play it now.
Speaker 22 (20:44):
Good with your calendar.
Speaker 36 (20:45):
Look at your calendar. Look at your calendar. Look at
your calendar. Look at your calendar. Look at your calendar.
Look at your calendar. Look at your calendar. Look at
your calendar.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He became almost infamous with his nineteen forty nine prank
after convincing Auckland a massive mild wide wasp swarm was
heading towards the city. It caused widespread panic, leading listeners
to see all their homes and jam police phone lines.
Unfortunately there's no recording of that day, but Phil did
reminisce years later.
Speaker 37 (21:21):
I turned it, doubted it, and kept selling, bringing all
those bits of about putting in a jam on, put
the jam on paper and put outside. And it's the
wisest if you see them. The wisest thing to do
is to light down flat and keep still, don't move.
And my boy, as around your trous.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Election know if you had blond trousers, And actually people
were doing it.
Speaker 37 (21:43):
And so as I got towards eight o' clark, PAPIs
still come out and it's begging.
Speaker 35 (21:46):
With me to close.
Speaker 37 (21:47):
And I said, nah, for the high jump now, so
I might as well do it well.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Phansh it well.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Another key boye from the early years was Joscelyn par
known by her Monica Maringa. She hosted the likes of
the Shopping Reporters Session, the Home Life Session, and the Women's.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
There you don't mind being interviewed? Oh no, no, do
you like me?
Speaker 14 (22:08):
You've done quite this.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I haven't done to How many people have told me?
How many people have you interviewed? Oh I'm sorry, I
can't remember.
Speaker 35 (22:15):
How try?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Oh several thousand people.
Speaker 13 (22:20):
What was what was your most embarrassing moment in an
interview part from this home I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I think when I really can't remember when a very
famous lady said she was going to dry up before
we had and we were about to have a national hooker.
What do I shook her? I just I'm interviewing you,
I think, am I.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, tell us about this famous lady after, I should.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Tell you about her afterwards.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Marina became such an institution.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Often after a show, her son would drive her down
Queen Street, where she was met by adoring.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Fans radio ones. He'd be Auckland.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
The other studio icon from one D be, of course,
MERV Smith, who took over the breakfast slot. In nineteen
sixty one. His show was known for delivering a somewhat
irreverent program. He had his sidekick mcarrey, the Scottish Spider.
Speaker 33 (23:16):
Oh really Christmas to you all?
Speaker 38 (23:20):
Oh McCarry, Oh for a Scottish spider, you look ridiculous.
Whether where the big black boots aren't my word? And
also the the red jacket and the red hat, and
you've got a bit of cotton wall around your face.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Pitty left you killed on looks a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 39 (23:36):
I needn't mind name.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm going up to an Ashka.
Speaker 40 (23:38):
Why are you going to an askar McCary, I'm going
to I'm shaded clause.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Prepare the Christmas story's mate, boy, I think that'd be
a nice job for me. Where are you going? Alaska?
But but Santa Claus doesn't live about there? Oh but
what about his wife?
Speaker 40 (23:51):
His wife Missus Christmas, him Mary Christmas. She'd go there,
wouldn't she? Well, Alaska, Alaska? You Norman, No, I'm not
absolutely sure. It's Witch of Palaces up there.
Speaker 41 (24:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
He wasn't afraid of doing voices either, talking about the
Herpie Golf Club.
Speaker 38 (24:04):
Heard a funny story about them the other day lady
member came into the golf club and she was and
since she said, look to the club secretary, you will
have to go and do something about the tramp and
the secretaries of the tramp. Which tramp she said, Well,
he said he's he's made a sort of little bovy
down down there by the by the sixth hole, you know,
the bushes and things that it's absolutely dreadful. He's scruffy, disgusting,
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and he certainly doesn't do much for the club. So
the golf secretary goes down to the seventh and sure
enough there he is. He said, Oi, and the boke sit.
He said, off, get off, quick, get up, And the
bloke said, that's mad, that's isn't it. Secret said, what
do you mean? He said, that's a lovely way to
get any members.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Move held the slot for Ones that'd be until January
of nineteen eighty seven, and even on his last broadcast
it wasn't about him from all.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Of us on the Early Bird Show to all my
friends and colleagues for.
Speaker 38 (24:54):
Thirty years on One's dby good morning, God bless have
a nice today.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
SHH Radio Ones, it'd be Auckland.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
During the early years Ones it'd be.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Many of our broadcasts didn't come from the studio but
the famous ZIDB Theater at Broadcasting House in Central Auckland,
and from there came some of the iconic game shows.
We're talking having a Shot, It's in the Bag, and
the mobile song QUISTI sid's.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Eat the bag.
Speaker 42 (25:31):
I'm sure that you know how to handle a phototype,
and I don't want you to squirt till I tell
you what to do a minute tomorrow night. So to
sip them it makes me thirsty, Arthur, old boy, You've
got to do a little bit of acting here. I
want you to repeat after me, made this blood of love,
thy summer's ripening breath. Paul, I know, give the fair
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proved to me the most beauteous flower. When next we
meet them, I want to do those actions, you know,
and nothing Hammy.
Speaker 18 (26:27):
That was Donald Jack of Dunedin, the National prize winner
of the nineteen fifty six Morbul Song Quest.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
These made the likes of Selwyn, to Goodney and Watkins
local celebrities and became the sound of one It'd be
during the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Coronets of England.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
The other sound that defined the early years were the
radio dramas. We're talking the likes of the Coronets of England,
Fred and Maggie, Everybody, Doctor paul A, Nightbeat.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
Posha Faces Life, the story of a courageous and beautiful woman.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Eventually, these dramas were challenged by the mass adoption of
television and were phased out in a swap for more
music and radio personalities. Another big part of the station
is put simply the commercials.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Broke my denture, broke my denture?
Speaker 43 (27:29):
Woe is me?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
What shall I do?
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Take it into mister gardness, and you fix it just
like you.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And you don't have to wait.
Speaker 43 (27:39):
Perfect craftsmanship, latest equipment and over twenty thousand teeth to
choose from, will assure your complete satisfaction. Mister Garris guarantees
all work for six months.
Speaker 44 (27:51):
Watch the address, Watch the address, hurry please and tell
me do top.
Speaker 41 (27:56):
Of Queen Street on the corner.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And the numbers nine two That particular ad forget us
dental renovations, thirsty and nineteen fifty and remained on air
for more than thirty years. But the style and sound
are the ones that'd be commercials changed over the years.
Speaker 12 (28:13):
Will it change over to dollars and cents be sudden
or gradual?
Speaker 45 (28:17):
Will shops handle both old and new currencies?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
What will the highest note be in dollars?
Speaker 46 (28:23):
And a last read the fact about decimal currency in
the informative booklet Decimal Currency and you delivered to you soon.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Will Here is another Nestles not surveys test.
Speaker 26 (28:35):
Question number one is why do you prefer Nestles not
rolled to any other rival chocolate ad bars?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Because I haven't plasted the others.
Speaker 26 (28:41):
What does a nice nutty snap do for you? And
if you had one, would you I would take it?
Should they be fully available to all age groups?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I would think so?
Speaker 26 (28:48):
Would you swear by a nutty snap?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I never swear To all the good folk of the
Auckland District who made our Easter egg appel such a
great success. Thank you the Broadcasting house for her literally
overad with chocolate googs by your generosity and the combined
efforts of the Lions Club thousands sees thousands of leady
Aucklanders and not only the kids either, who'd otherwise have
been forgot. Ladista enjoyed the thrill of being remembered what
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red and white and arrives at a sligh at Lyndmore
Shopping Center today you guessed again, Santa Clause of course,
making his first Christmas appearance and a flourish of fun
and excitement. Be there at Lynnmoll eleven o'clock this morning
and see Sata's arrival and then have the kids photographed
on his knee when he takes up residents in the
mall extension. He'll be there every day now until Christmas
ten am to midday, twelve forty five to four pm
(29:36):
and six to eight pm on late nights.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Santa, and He's at Lynmoll's Shopping Center in newly.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Next here about how one's it'd be still kept Aucklander's
up to dope with the big events here and around
the world.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Whatever it is you want to though you're bound here
on maby.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
One's a bet use weather, sports, travel services, CA information
is wasting right on top of everything on.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
ONE'SB. After all, isn't that that we're here for?
Speaker 20 (30:11):
Is con.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Just because one z ITB was predominantly a lifestyle, music
and comedy station, we were still there covering the news
and the issues that define generations. We've n covered the
general election of nineteen forty six, and here.
Speaker 33 (30:28):
Are from three booths in the Remoe electorate. We have
the following results Algae National one thy three hundred and
eighty four and Freeman Labor nine hundred and fifty three.
That's from three booths from Remoerra Algae one three eighty
four and Freeman Labor nine hundred and fifty three. Now
from Only Hunger two booths results Osburn Labor six hundred
(30:50):
and fifty two and King National four hundred and seventy
one from Only Hunger. That's two boots Osbon six hundred
and fifty two and King four hundred and seven be one.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
One of the first big international stories we covered was
the application of King Edward the Eighth.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You must believe me when I tell you.
Speaker 47 (31:12):
That I have found it impossible to carry the heavy
burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king
as I would wish to do, but how to help
and support of the world eye lie.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
The coverage extended to moments of national tragedy like the
Tonguawai rail disaster. On Christmas Eve of nineteen fifty three.
Queen Elizabeth was on her first tour of the country
at the time, and devoted her Christmas message to the victims.
Speaker 41 (31:45):
I know that there is no one in New Zealand,
and indeed throughout the Commonwealth who will not join with
my husband and me in sending to those who warn
a message of empathy in the loss. I pray that
they and all who have been injured, may be comforted
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and strengthened.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It wasn't until nineteen sixty two that one did be
made the decision to bring news bulletins into the Breakfast
show with merv Smith, and the events kept coming. There
was the Waheni disaster of nineteen sixty eight, which ones
had be carried constant updates on the.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Death toll from the stricken. Fury in Wellington Harbor is
rising steeply.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
A few moments ago it was visible, clearly visible from
the shore, and it appeared to be moving slowly backwards
towards the rocks a few hundred yards from the shore.
Speaker 22 (32:38):
The Wahene is rolling frightfully in the heavy swell in
the harbor.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
It's list in creases and then it goes back, but
it never reaches perpendicular Againwahany is now lying practically on
its side.
Speaker 20 (32:52):
Quarterflack remains. Only half of the lifeboats on the Waheni
were actually lowered before the ship lifted. It's gone away
evidently okay. But on the other side the list was
so great that the lifeboats were high in the water,
out of the water, in fact on top of the
ship once that's listed, and were unable to be lowered
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into the water.
Speaker 37 (33:13):
How do you feel now, A look that the area glad,
it's all over hung well to tell us what it
was like when you notice came to a vend and ship.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
Oh well, statalist fairly barely, and I thought.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
It wouldn't be long.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Like many people in up in the water quite a
few years.
Speaker 11 (33:27):
One of the stewarts helping the boys the ward Heaven
Willner water Fell Industries.
Speaker 48 (33:31):
I may ever think the tens of Maple has been
the blackest day in Wellington's history, the tragedy of the
Wahini which is now lying being founded by scenes in
the shallows by the pinnacle rock in the harbor lying
on his side.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
We kept the audience up today through wars like the Korean,
Vietnam and Cold Wars. The station carried this statement from
Prime Minister Keith Holyoake on the Vietnam War in nineteen
sixty five.
Speaker 44 (33:57):
New Zealand's vital interested in this war. The fate of
South Vietnam will help to determine the future of Malaysia,
Thailand and the other small nations of the area, and
New Zealand's own security is the involved. The people of
South Vietnam must be supported in their struggle against communist aggression,
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and we are determined to give to sport to those
who desire to bring about negotiations and a peaceful settlement
of this vital problem.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Once zbe kept audiences up to day during the country's
worst aviation disaster and its fallout.
Speaker 24 (34:36):
Tail section of the DC ten is intact, but it
is empty. There is no sign of life among or
near the wreckage.
Speaker 49 (34:42):
It appears there was an explosion on impact. It must
have gone in very hard and so and things happened
very quickly after that. I think that's the important thing,
though there's certainly no survivors.
Speaker 24 (34:54):
Three well experienced mountaineers from New Zealand's Scott Base were
earlier dropped near the crash site by United State's helicopter,
but were unable to reach the site by foot. The
helicopter was not able to land due to thirty nine
wins and a thirty five degree slow. The area is
badly crevassed, and two large crevasses beyond the rear of
the aircraft appear to have been opened up by the
force of the impact.
Speaker 45 (35:14):
As many bodies as are possible, take them to start
base for identification and subsequently back to New Zealand. There
are serious allegations relating to the Chief Executive's integrity and
that of other senior employees. These finally's findings were totally
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rejected by the board because we know the people concerned.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
It wasn't just covering the disasters. Ones it be celebrated
at the moments that stopped the nation as well.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Ones it be couldn't.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Resist being caught up in beetles fever in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Either, Oh, you had a pretty wild reception here at
the hotel.
Speaker 50 (35:51):
True, yeah, a very good. A young pillet jumped up
on State and grabbed that puberty. What I'm singing?
Speaker 35 (35:57):
How does it feel? Do you think the thing was
going to get out of hand?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
No?
Speaker 51 (36:00):
You know, kafooling is when you look at them, you know,
fellows and the girl who jump up, you realize they're
not going to but you know and you know they're
not They're not trying to get you, really, they're just
coming up to Fay.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well, you know these three young ladies got in here.
Speaker 50 (36:15):
I don't know how Julia cana and clicked one.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
How do you do?
Speaker 20 (36:21):
I'm talking.
Speaker 13 (36:22):
I'm hoping my hand with you.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Are they are a little overall? A little overall?
Speaker 50 (36:27):
You looked quite confident today, Bringo. Have you heard this
record that the Howard Morrison group here in New zeal
And they've got a big kid with cord I want
to cut your hair?
Speaker 30 (36:35):
No, not yet.
Speaker 52 (36:36):
I've heard all about it, though they could.
Speaker 50 (36:38):
Have you heard it? I happened, but everybody's talking, everybody's tone,
but nobody seems to have heard it.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Anyway, tell them not aloud for Bard, not that dude.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Like the Risk of New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
We're on tinder hooks waiting to see if Sir Edmund
Hillary would conquer Everest. And we got word from the
Prime Minister June the second, nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 44 (37:03):
And now, though it will break into the normal program
of this service, I'm able to announce.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
That a news flash has just come through advising us that.
Speaker 29 (37:18):
The New Zealand now Hillary has succeeded in conquering malt Everest.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
The station has a long history of covering a royal
family visit that included Jenny Goodwin on the streets of
Auckland for the Queen's nineteen seventy four tour.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
Good morning everyone, or shall I say a good afternoon
because it hurt me the Sunday afternoon A wonderfully.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Day or two Greece?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Are we all visited here in Queen Street where I'm
rere counting to you from opposite the Cinerama Theater.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
The ray party had now asived.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
And that offense have to call him their receivings from
the card.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Here, Like many stations around the world, once it'd be
ran constant updates on the assess nation of John F.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Kennedy.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Malcom Kilduff, the acting White House Press Secretary, issued the
following announcement at nineteen hours thirty five GMT. President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy died at approximately one pm Simple Standard time,
nineteen hours GMT today here in Dallas. He died of
a gunshot wound in the brain.
Speaker 52 (38:24):
I find it impossible to find words adequate to describe
my feelings of shock and sadness at this pointless assassination
of one of the world's greatest leaders.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Then we hit to one of the most turbulent times
in our country's history. The nineteen eighty one springboard to him.
Once it be carried reports from throughout the country on
the unrest.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Ascelia hearing is the.
Speaker 37 (38:47):
Sound of police batty's weighing down shields and crash almost
the protesters.
Speaker 39 (38:52):
Protesters regrouped themselves just officted the police lined a short
time ago and made a chart.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
A number of policemen have lost their helmets appeared. I've
lost their batons as well.
Speaker 13 (39:04):
One aunty to a protestant, Mister Burns has taken a
four year old with him.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Why does the child have to be in the march.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
It's a question of now or the future.
Speaker 53 (39:12):
Would have rather if he got killed?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
A relish?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
You bad now?
Speaker 33 (39:14):
Then the concentration cam.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Look, I went through two world Lewis.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
You sacrifice a child?
Speaker 26 (39:18):
Sacrifice a child for they say their ten thousand other
children in the future.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Hope on right into the middle of the all blacks.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
One of them's gone down.
Speaker 11 (39:25):
Gary Knight taken right in the head by one of
those packets of flower.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Flatten straight down to the ground.
Speaker 41 (39:32):
The reports that policemen really were out of control and
the aggression they used against individual people, pummeling into them,
beating them.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
How do you feel about this? Were your men out
of control at any stage?
Speaker 35 (39:43):
Absolutely nonsense.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Thready again I must repeat to you.
Speaker 35 (39:46):
And it was a near riot situation.
Speaker 39 (39:48):
I think it's very difficult when someone's abusing you to
your face and people are shouting and screaming in front
of you to concentrate on what's happening. When they visibly
confront the police and spit in their faces, you wonder
just why they're there. It destroys their credibility, really know.
The South African jumbo craft lumbered into the air. There
(40:09):
were scenes of wild dubilation be bought it in Bomia.
Some of the fighting protiff what they were thinking, I'll relieved.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
It, it's all over.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Can you go alad and see that plane go?
Speaker 13 (40:26):
How do you feel that?
Speaker 6 (40:27):
I'm pleased they've gone, and I hope I don't come
back again.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
One of the biggest events ones to be covered was
the infamous bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
This was nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 9 (40:36):
Explosions rang out from the forty meter ship at about midnight,
and the crew scrambled to get off the vessel to
safety as she began going under, but one crew member
was caught below decks and police recovered his body early
this morning.
Speaker 50 (40:48):
We know was that between the first and second explosions
he went back aboard, presumably to retrieve his camera here.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
And he never made it out.
Speaker 46 (40:58):
Wolfside chatter is that the vestl was carrying nothing potentially
explosive on board, so suspicion mounts that the sinking was
an act of sabotage. Divers are now surveying the hull
of the former Truler and they're trying to establish whether
the blast came from inside or outside the vessel.
Speaker 13 (41:15):
We can take it from that that there's been an explosion,
probably on the outside of the vessel.
Speaker 50 (41:19):
From the beat to information, I have anage of who
did it, and I know from the beach to information
I have why it's done.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
A man and a woman will appear in the Yorklan
District Court at k am tomorrow morning. They will appear
on charges of murder, arsen and conspiracy with arson.
Speaker 53 (41:37):
There's been a sensation at the Rainbow Warrior Court hearing
in autumn. This morning, with the two French army officers
admitting their involvement in the bombing and the death of
one of the protest boat's crew members, we now go
to the courtrooms and reporter Ian Bernie.
Speaker 54 (41:50):
The sensational move came after the Crown dropped the murder
charges against them and substituted those charges with charges of manslaughter.
The couple were formerly identified in court for the first
time as French Army officers Captain Frederick Prieer and Major
Allen Marthaire. I would say this for the first step
of justice, but there's still a lot of other agents
and the French government that should be responsible and should
(42:13):
have been in for it today.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
As you know today, our talk about shows often host
political leaders to take questions from listeners. That tradition actually
dates back to nineteen eighty four when both David Longie
and Sir Rob Muldoon came into the studio.
Speaker 55 (42:25):
I'll ask you the next question now from Paul lawson
of Parnell, who says, will you retire if National loses
the election or will you continue in Parliament as leader
of the Opposition.
Speaker 45 (42:36):
Oh, I'd continue. I don't think we're going to lose.
By the way, you have an awful lot of advertisements
on this program, don't you. I've never heard anyments in
all my life.
Speaker 55 (42:47):
Well, what's the first priority of a labor government next week?
Speaker 35 (42:51):
The first priority is to be very, very measured in
our response to the change of government. There is not
going to be a wholesale disruption and dipmomatic posts. Those
things are not the priority.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Thank you for your time this well, thank you.
Speaker 55 (43:07):
Back to the advertisements.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, I'm afraid happy birthday on it.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
You seem to have been here always for me.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Fifty Despite getting to the half century once, It'd Be
was facing some trouble.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Ratings were on the slide.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Mersemiths sensationally resigned from his breakfast spot to head to
a competitor, and the audience was growing weary of the
all rounder station. So the powers that be decided to
make a major change, which we will bring you in
the next episode.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I might asking catch you next time.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
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