RADIO NOTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 25, 24 April 1950, Page 2

RADIO NOTES

MONDAY IYZ ROTORUA

6.45 Some Famous Singers; 7.0 Talk: “The New Zealander Goes to War,” by Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger; 7.15 Music of the War Years; 7.30 Listeners’ Own Session; 9.10 Gallipoli Landing, a programme of remembrance; 9.30 Say It With Music; 10.0 Beau Geste. IYA AUCKLAND 7.30 London Studio Melodies; 8.0 The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster; 8.15 The Master of Jalna; 8.41 Popular Favourites; 9.10 Gallipoli Landing; 9.30 Thomas L. Thomas: Two Negro Spirituals; 9.38 Norman Cloutier Orchestra; 9.45 The Comedy Harmonists; 10.0 Variety.

TUESDAY IYZ ROTORUA

6.45 Orchestral Variety; 7.15 Talk on Te Puke by Enid Tapsell; 7.30 Isador Goodman, piano; 8.0 Play; 8.30 Violin Sonata in F (Beethoven); 9.30 The Knaves Quartet; 9.45 Versatile Virtuosi; 10.0 Soft Lights and Sweet Music. IYA AUCKLAND

7.45 Rhythm of the New Woi'ld; 8.0 American Personalities on Parade; 8.10 Owen Jensen highlights of the coming week’s broadcast music; 8.38 Popular music round the piano; 9.5 Professional Boxing; 10.0 Northumbrian Barn Dance; 10.28 Variety. 2YA WELLINGTON

7.30 Bill Hoffmeister and his Rhythm; 7.47 The Feilds and Hall Mountaineers; 8.0 Johnny Williams and his Latin-Americans; 8.20 The Woman’s Point of View; 10.0 Dance Pour.

Almost 6,500 airports are now in operation in the United States.

There are now 1,000,000 more women than men in the United. States.

United States tourists spent an estimated 190,000,000 dollars while travelling in Europe in 1949.

The State of Nevada in the United States has the sixth largest area of the 48 States but the smallest population.