Kōrero: Radio

Stan Hughes demonstrates some of Robert Jack's pioneering broadcasting equipment at Otago University, in 1991. Jack, a physics professor at the university, and his technician Jack Sutherland built a radio transmitter from British equipment. Professor Jack made the first New Zealand radio broadcast of voice and music on 17 November 1921. Stan Hughes joined the physics department in 1924 as assistant to Sutherland, and worked with Sutherland and Jack on further innovative research.