Colony of North Borneo annual report.

  • British North Borneo
Date:
[1959]
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Credit: Colony of North Borneo annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with a Central Librarian in Jesselton, co-ordinating activities throughout the Colony and organising library services for the smaller outstations. The Film and Photographic Section has been particularly heavily engaged throughout the year and covered all the many outstanding events which have taken place, including the Royal Visit, the SEATO amphibian exercises and the visit of the Minister of Defence. Mobile cinema units staffed by one full-time projectionist and assisted by part-time operators maintained circuits in the Jesselton area and in Sandakan and Tawau. Projectors are now maintained and operated in both Sandakan and Tawau which hitherto shared the same machine. Lack of space, both in the Information Office and in the temporary Studios of Radio Sabah, continues to be a pressing problem. Plans were completed during the year for a new Broad¬ casting House and tenders had been invited for its construction. Its completion should remove many present difficulties and lead to increased services and efficiency. Throughout the year close liaison was maintained with Sarawak and the corresponding, offices in that territory. Frequent visits were exchanged and co-operation between Radio Sarawak and Radio Sabah has been very close. In particular, the very valuable advice and assistance generously given by Radio Sarawak’s engineering staff in the design and plans for the new studio block and for the equipment layout must be gratefully recorded. There was also close co-operation between the Director of Broadcasting and Information Services and the British Council’s representative in Sarawak and the Public Relations Officer of the Shell Oil Company, Brunei. Broadcasting During the year Radio Sabah continued its broadcasts in four languages, serving the various sections of the community in North Borneo. Lunchtime and evening programmes were carried on both shortwave and medium-wave, the latter for the Jesselton area, and the early morning programmes were on medium- wave only. On the 28th of June the evening transmissions were extended until 10' p.m. At the end of the year the total broad¬ casting time per week was sixty-one hours, this being an increase of over twenty per cent on the weekly figure of forty-seven hours at the beginning of the year. Difficulties of reception in some parts of the country continued throughout the year, and in an effort to make some improvement a change was made to a new short-wave frequency in May. The Posts and Telegraphs Depart¬ ment, who are responsible for the transmission of the programmes.
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