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the service desirable, it is filling the needs of a section of
the community and the impact on other stations is not such as to
outweigh those considerations. Indeed no evidence of any possible
commercial impact was produced other than by the applicant who
referred to the station receiving recognition of its existence in a
McNair survey which was not produced to the Tribunal.

The audience for such a station will be self-limiting providing the
station continues properly to serve its student audience. In a previous
decision (3/81) we said:

“Let it first be said that the Tribunal has encouraged student
radio and has been disappointed that the provisions made
in the Act which arose out of their own submissions for a
more permanent form of authorisation or warrant have never
been used by the student unions. We are not clear why. It
is unfortunate that a number of applications have to be
considered from some of the universities every year when it
should only be necessary to consider one from each.

“It also needs to be said that the Tribunal does not regard such
stations as general broadcasting stations providing a service
to a young audience. Every application has to be treated on
its merits and the student association applications are
invariably put forward to provide a service to students. Any
wider purpose invites the examination of the application on
a commercial basis akin to a warrant application. It would
have to be decided the extent to which the station should be
in competition with those holding existing warrants which
carry continuous transmission responsibilities and obligations
to provide a number of other services to the community.

“University student association stations provide a worthwhile
service to students. We do not consider that broadcasting by
these stations should necessarily be confined only to periods
such as orientation and we believe it would be better for such
stations to have a more flexible approach as to hours of
broadcast and the maximum number of hours per annum
to develop services and provide for the needs of the university
students without the need for several formal premeditated
applications each year.”

The evidence in this case points to the Students Association in
Auckland conducting a station which is providing a good service
to a specialist audience in accordance with its resources which would
not justify an application for a full time commercial warrant. It is
clear that the invitation from the Independent Broadcasters
Association to make such an application is by no means an
indication that it would meet with the support of the commercial
operators in that city. It is rather an effort to try and have the
proposals of the broadcasters at Auckland University adjudged on
a full commercial warrant basis. The nature of their broadcasts and
the limitations they place on themselves mean that their purpose
is to broadcast to their own audience at specific times to suit that
audience and not as a general broadcasting station.

The short term broadcasting procedure as provided for in the
1979 Amendment Act provides an ideal situation for the control
and licensing of a student station. It gives an opportunity once a
year for a hearing such as the present one to take place, for the
personnel who change from time to time to be notified and for the
station to remain sensitive to criticism and complaints.

The Tribunal considers the procedure exactly appropriate to the
type of operation conducted.

We must say that it may well be that in serving their particular
audience they will have some impact on other stations in the area.
We have referred to this in previous decisions.

That they may lose some small part of the their audience follows
from the authorisation of any broadcasting concurrent with the
broadcasting from warranted stations. That some enterprising
students might partly fill a gap in commercial radio services in
Auckland should be a matter of congratulation for the system, not
the basis of an attempt to stultify student broadcasting or to confine
it to a self-financing training scheme for commercial radio.

The application has been granted for the purpose of providing
an entertainment and information service to students of Auckland
University. Advertising is limited to 4 minutes per hour.

The Registrar was directed to issue accordingly with the following
conditions:

(a) The holder of this Authorisation shall comply with the
requirements of the Act and all Regulations issued
thereunder.

(b) Unless otherwise approved in writing by the Tribunal the
holder of this Authorisation shall comply with all rules
issued by the Tribunal.

(c) The holder of this Authorisation is required to reduce power
or cease transmissions at the direction of the Post Office
at any time should harmful interference result from
transmissions.

(d) The holder of this Authorisation shall maintain a programme
log and an advertising schedule and shall keep copies of
any scripts used. The log, schedule and scripts to be
available to the Tribunal if so called upon within 6 months.

(e) The holder of this Authorisation shall, unless exempted by the
Tribunal, conform to and maintain the technical standards
and rules as formulated by the Corporation in consultation
with the Independent Broadcasters Association Inc.
including the furnishing of such technical returns as may
from time to time be required by these rules and standards.

(f) An audited statement of receipts and expenditure is to be
forwarded to the Registrar within 3 months of the
completion of broadcasting.

(g) Advertising will be permitted to a maximum of 4 minutes per
hour and shall be directed to the university student
audience. If required by the Tribunal a list of advertisers
and amounts paid for advertising shall be supplied within
1 month of the request therefor.

(h) The necessary licence to operate a broadcasting station is to
be obtained from the Post Office.

(i) Programming material may also be directed to students of the
Auckland Technical Institute.

Subject to the above, the station shall be operated in accordance
with the application relating to the authorisation.

Dated the 23rd day of July 1982.

For the Tribunal:

B. H. SLANE, Chairman.

The Standards Act 1965—Overseas Specifications Endorsed as
Suitable for use in New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 17 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards
Council, on 20 December 1985, endorsed the under-mentioned
overseas specifications as suitable for use in New Zealand.

Number and Title of Specification Price of Copy
(Post free)
$

AS 1530:----Methods for fire tests on building
materials, components and structures—
Part 4:1985 Fire-resistance tests of elements of
building construction. 28.00

AS 1580:----Methods of test for paints and related
materials—
Method 302.1:1985 Pigment content. 10.00
Method 408.1:1984 Adhesion—paint
inspection gauge. 10.00
Method 408.2:1984 Adhesion—knife test. 10.00

AS 2312:1984 Guide to the protection of iron and
steel against exterior atmospheric corrosion. 53.00

BS 490:----Conveyor and elevator belting—
Part 1:1985 Rubber and plastics conveyor belting
of textile construction for general use. 46.60
Part 10: Testing for physical properties—
Section 10.1:1983 Introduction. 14.00
Section 10.2:1983 Method for determination of
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of rubber and plastics conveyor belting of
textile construction. 23.40
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adhesion strength of rubber and plastics
belting of textile construction. 23.40
Section 10.5:1984 Method for determination of
tensile strength and elongation at break of
rubber covers. 4.60
Section 10.6:1983 Method for determination of
troughability of conveyor belts. 31.60
Section 10.7:1984 Method for determination of
length of an endless belt. 4.60

BS 506:1966 Specification for methanol. 35.00

BS 1041:----Temperature measurement—
Part 2:Expansion thermometers—
Section 2.1:1985 Guide to the selection and use
of liquid-in-glass thermometers. 73.20

BS 2690:----Methods of testing water used in
industry—
Part 109:1984 Alkalinity, acidity, pH value and
carbon dioxide. 31.60