5384 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 223

The station manager, Mr R. F. J. Woodward, gave evidence to
the effect that extending the hours before next year would mean
more staff and more costs which were not tenable at present. His
estimate was that complying with the warrant condition would cost
the station another $30,000.

The basic reasons given in this application were the same as those
for Ashburton. The severe draught conditions in 1981 and 1982
have lead to depressed economic conditions which mean the station
is having difficulty selling its advertising. Mr Woodward's evidence
was that they have been able to sell considerably less than 50 percent
of the overall time available.

The reason for the alteration to the originally requested
amendment is that on Saturdays after the locally originated
programme ends 4ZW joins the commercial network (4ZB). This
includes the Scoreboard programme which starts at 1 p.m. It has
been very well received in the local community and Mr Woodward's
view is that to have local origination between the hours of 1 p.m.
and 2 p.m. on Saturday would be unacceptable to listeners. He stated
that the Scoreboard programme includes 4 segments provided by
his station.

Mr R. Rayner, on behalf of Radio Otago forwarded written
comments to the Tribunal in respect of this application. The letter
included the proposal that an additional hour of local origination
on Saturday could be produced by 4ZW having 1 hour of local
sports results and news after the ZB Scoreboard programme. Mr
Woodward's comment on this was that it would be financially
impractical. He said the 4 inserts in the Dunedin programme already
cost the station a great deal. He also felt that there was insufficient
local activity to generate a full hour of sports results. He felt the
community was reasonably well covered by the inserts in Scoreboard.

Mr Woodward however agreed with a number of the comments
made by Mr R. Rayner about the amount of local origination there
should be in an area of this size. It is his belief, as well as Mr
Rayner's, that the area should have at least 8 hours of local
origination per day. However, it is Mr Woodward's definite opinion
that it is financially impossible to achieve this at present. He hopes
that such extensions will be possible next year, although, he was
extremely reluctant to make any commitment to so doing.

The applicant has established that refusal to grant this amendment
will jeopardize the existence of this mini station. That is not in the
public interest. The amendment is therefore granted. Again the
Tribunal expresses its concern that station 4ZW Oamaru has
operated in breach of its warrant from the end of November 1983
until it filed its application at the end of March 1984. The
amendment that is granted, is deferment of warrant requirements
until 15 March 1985 only.

Gore—4ZG

The situation with the Gore application is slightly different from
the other two. The amendment applied for warrant AM-62 is as
follows:

"(Condition 4) The music programme between 1030 and 1630
hours on days when Sports Round-up is not broadcast shall
be musically an alternative to 4ZA and 4YZ".

by the addition of the following proviso:

"Provided that this condition shall not be required to be
implemented until 15 March 1985."

That condition, as it now stands, requires 4ZG to produce a music
programme between the hours of 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m., which
is an alternative to 4ZA. In fact the station is repeating 4ZA from
12 noon until 6 p.m. It is also broadcasting locally originated
programmes between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12 noon and this
complies with condition (3) of its warrant.

This station, which is known as Radio Hokonui, broadcast under
short term authorisations for periods totalling 2½ years. Their
existing warrant was issued on 9 December 1983 and of course runs
for a period of 5 years.

Under the short term authorisations Radio Hokonui repeated the
4ZA and the Invercargill programme from, firstly, 11 a.m. until
6 p.m., and then from October 1983, from 12 noon until 6 p.m. Mr
L. D. Eccles, the station manager of Radio Hokonui, appeared for
the Corporation. He said that it had not been appreciated by the
Corporation that the full time warrant would be different from the
short term authorisation.

The difference lies in condition (4) which requires the musical
alternative to 4ZA. Mr Eccles said that this came as a surprise to
the Corporation because considerable changes had taken place since
the development of the original programming concept. He said that
when the original application was submitted to the Tribunal, some
3 years ago, technological advances had outpaced the equipment
which was proposed for the alternative programme concept. Indeed
he said, that the technology for the music programme was out of
date at the time of the application, and is now obsolete.

He explained that Radio New Zealand is developing new
technology for this purpose but it is presently only in a formative
stage.

Mr Eccles stated in his evidence that the Corporation did not
wish to proceed along the original lines. During the hearing he
clarified this to explain that it was not that the Corporation did not
wish to produce the alternative music programme so much as they
were presently unable to do so. As soon as the appropriate technology
was available the Corporation would broadcast an alternative music
programme.

Mr Eccles explained that should the Corporation be required to
broadcast an alternative music programme at this stage considerable
financial pressure would be applied to Radio Hokonui. He said that
the station has returned an operating surplus since its inception,
but it has not been as great as originally anticipated. The same
problems as were outlined when the amendment applications for
Oamaru and Ashburton were made, applied to this station. The
climatic conditions have contributed to a difficult economic
situation. Mr Eccles estimated that to broadcast the required
programme would cost Radio Hokonui in the vicinity of $20,000
per year and he felt that this could not be justified financially at
the present time.

This mini station provides a community facility which is well
received. It has largely achieved what it has set out to do and has
been accepted in the local community. The applicant has established
that refusal to grant this amendment would jeopardize the existence
of the station and this is not in the public interest. The amendment
is therefore granted.

However, the Tribunal repeats its concern that station 4ZG Gore
has operated in breach of its warrant, in fact since the warrant was
issued on 9 December last year. The amendment that is granted,
as applied for, is deferment of warrant conditions until 15 March
1985 only.

Dated this 31st day of October 1984.

L. R. SCEATS and A. E. WILSON, Members.

Customs Exchange Rates Notice 1984

PURSUANT to section 143 of the Customs Act 1966, the Comptroller
of Customs, in accordance with the power delegated to him by the
Minister of Customs under section 9 of that Act, hereby gives the
following notice.

NOTICE

1. Short title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited
   as the Customs Exchange Rates Notice 1984.
   (2) This notice shall come into force on the 1st day of December

3. Exchange rates—Where under any provisions of the Customs
   Act 1966 any amount which is required to be taken into account
   for the purpose of assessing duty or any other purpose is not an
   amount in New Zealand currency, the amount to be so taken into
   account shall be the equivalent in New Zealand currency of that
   amount ascertained in accordance with the rate of exchange set out
   in the Schedule to this notice.

4. Revocation—The Customs Exchange Rates Notice published
   in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 195, dated 25 October 1984, on
   page 4614 is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Value of One NZ Dollar

Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Dollar
Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.13 Schilling
Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.75 Taka
Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.37 B Franc
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301.00 Cruzeiro
Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.03 Kyat
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Dollar
Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.53 Peso
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.28 Renminbi or Yuan
Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.22 Krone
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 E Pound
Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 F Dollar
Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.03 Markka
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.44 Franc
French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.68 FP Franc
Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.35 Drachma
Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.84 HK Dollar
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.87 Rupee
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 I Pound
Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197.31 Shekel
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901.48 Lira
Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.06 J Dollar
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.42 Yen
Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.17 M Dollar (Ringgit)
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.00 Peso