 This led to the broadcasting on Saturday 17 November 1921 (from the university’s physics department) of New Zealand’s first radio programme.Further transmissions were made two nights a week, programmes consisting announcements and live and pre-recorded music; Isabella Finlay Manson (the Scottish-born matron of Knox College, University of Otago who was to become Robert Jack’s wife on 22 May 1922) contributing musical content.In April 1922, an attempt was made to transmit a special broadcast specifically directed to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch.