WIRELESS NEWS

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19174, 3 December 1927, Page 10

WIRELESS NEWS

(By Listener.)

The total of radio licenses up to the end of October is 33,322. Wellington district is now running Auckland very close, less than a thousand separating the two big districts.

Alterations aro under way at Auckland's big station, and a second studio is being provided, filling a long-felt want. Several new "uncles" and ''aunts*' have been appointed, to ensure that the kiddies will be well catered for. •a- * "More church broadcasting stations" is the slogan of the "Osservatore Romano," the- official organ of the Vatican, which decries certain phases of present broadcasting methods and programmes. One indictment brought against broadcasting is that it causes waste of time by creating the habit of listening-in at all hours of the day. * * Terminal markings, electrical symbols, and standard voltages were among the topics discussed at the recent technical meetings of the International Electro-Technical Commission at Belagio, Lake Como, Ita y. Iho Commission was engaged on the unenviable task of unifying electrical language, with the object of producing an electrical and radio vocabulary to°scrvc all nations. Listeners in Wellington are having' :i wonderful time with radio, but not in the direction readers might expect, states a Wellington correspondent. Imagine a thousand cats, dogs, and a few machine guns, all yelling, screeching, r>nd firing off together, and you can picture how hideous the night is made for listeners who try to listen to any other than the local 2YA. Immediately listeners tune in any station outside Wellington and especially 2BL (Sydney) after Wellington closes down, the noise is deafenng. * *. With the opening of Station XOL, the city of Tientsin, China, now has two broadcasting stations, XOL, which is owned by the Chinese Government radio administration, employs a power of 500 watts with a wave length of 480 meters. . , . , „„„ The programmes consist ot phonograph music and concerts from local cafes, in addition to certain market reports. . . The other broadcasting station in Tientsin is owned by a Japanese electrical firm and is restricted to the modest power of 50 watts.

An American resident of Paris has made complaint that the constantly increasing number of loud speakers has begun to constitute a public nuisance. During the last two years he has three times had to change his domicile on this account but each time found himself transferred from the frying pan into the fire. He writes: Some Parisian apartment houses have become absolutely uninhabitable Tne £ e are, I understand, some in which the placing of loud - speakers is prohibited by contract. But this is of little avail when one must hear their creaking and screeching from two or three neighbouring houses, and you are constantly disturbed in your sleep by the bawling and squeaking of tenors arid sopranos. It is unbearable and should be forbidden by law."

Mr C. R. Russell, the well-known Christchurch raido expert, who has recently returned from a visit to Australia, 'states that to a New Zealander the broadcast receivers which find favour in Australia are disappointing, in many cases the machines having a very amateurish look about them. This is due to the high protective tariff on imported receivers, and it is said that it costs '75 per cent, to import an American receiver. A few firms manufacture a very high-grade receiver, quite as good as the imported article, including . those of super-heterodyne type, and in fact this is the only suitable tvpe for a'city such as Sydney, with five separate stations. A tew American receivers are to bo had, but these are generally very costly, and a number of machines which are sold very readily in this country are neyer seen over there.

*' * The King may soon address his 450 million subjects throughout the world by word of mouth, the 8.8.C. announces - ' . j ,~ This communication was made in view of the recent progress in broadcasting from one part of the Empire to another. Recently Station 21C Sydney has radiated a programme on two wave-lengths simultaneously—2B.<> metres for oversea reception and 442 metres for reception in Australia and New Zealand. This has been heard in England, and part of the programme has been rebroadcast. by the British Broadcasting Corporation so that listeners throughout the United Kingdom could hear. It would be futile to suggest that the recent reception was entirely satisfactory, and the inauguration of an Empire broadcasting service from Britain will depend upon the results of a new series of experiments which are being carried out this month. 2BL Sydney, rebroadcast the Ttalian broadcaster IMI Milan one night recently for about fifteen minutes. * * There are differing opinions on the advisability of including an educational curriculum in the programmes of the Class "A" station. Mr Tate, the Director of Education in Victoria : has returned from abroad absolutely convinced of the great untapped possibilities of the radio for such purposes. Objections have been made by listeners on the score of dullness. In effect they say "Radio is primarily an entertainment. Certainly you may not piease all tastes with the entertainment you provide, but entertainment must be your main, if not your sole function. If you put educational talks into your programmes to a greater extent than at present you will bore us and we will drop our licenses." That is a serious consideration for the manager of a public utility who has to amuse thousands of people, and who ean bore them only in a very limited wav. The solution for this and other difficulties will one day, no doubt, be a double wave-length, on one of which instructional matter can be broadcast, and the other will carry entertainmen. Till that happy and expensive day dawns, education of children over the air is bound to cause grumbling. There is much need for a campaign to educate the listening public to bear with education. i'ndoubtedly the young people of today have every opportunity when one considers the usefulness and instructiveness of Radio. It is certain that a Crystal Set is the most advantageous Xmas Present for 1927. Complete Crystal Sets, Headphones, Aerial Wire, and Insulators can be bought for 30s at J. I. Sniail, Electrical and Radio Engineer. Carey's Buildings, 734 Colombo street. Ghristchurch. —6

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♦ TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES. IYA, AUCKLAND. (333 Metres.) ;> p.m.: Afternoon session, selected Studio items. 4: Literary selection by Mr Culford Bell. 4.30: Close down. 6: Children's hour. 7: Close down. 7.15: News and sports results. 7.45: Close dowu. fi: Chimes: relav <ii municipal organ recital from Town fiiill (organist, Mr Manghan Burnett). 9.30: lli'liiy of dance music from Dixieland Cabiiret,'under the direction of Mr Clyde Howley. 11: A thought. 11.1: God Save the King. 2YA, WELLINGTON. (120 Metres.) 3 p.m.: Afternoon session, selected Studio items; chimes of the General Post Office clock, Wellington. 3.1: Selected gramophone items. 11.15: Itelay of Manuel Hyman 1 s Exhibition Baud from the Adclphi Cabaret. 5: Close down. 0: Children's hour. 7; News session, market reports, and sports results. 8: Chimes of the General Post Office clock, Wellington. 8.1: Overture, "In a Chinese Temple Garden" (Ketelby). b.5: Quartet, Celeste Quartet, "Anvil Chorus" from "11 Trovatore" (Verdi). 8.9: Mandolin and steel guitar selections, Mr E. J. Palmer, (a) "Red Rosebud" (Gibbos); (b) "0 Solo Mio" (Di Capua). 8.1G: .Soprano solo, Miss Myra Sawyer, "Lo Carnival de Venice" (Benedict). 8.20: lustrumental trio, Symons-Ell-wood-Short Trio, "Trio in G, Allegro and Andante" (Mozart). 8.30: Bass solo, Mr Win. Boardmau, "The Porter's Soug" from "Martha" (Flotow). 8.33: Vocal trio, Miss Myra Sawyer, Miss Mabel Dyer, and Mr Edgar Swain, "Because" (d'Hurdelot). 8.36: Maudoliu and steel guitar, Mr E. J. Palmor, (a) "Lay My Head Beueath a Rose" (Falkenslcin) ; (.b) "Kaiwahau Waltz" (ivawiki). 8.41: Tenor solo, Mr Edgar Swain. "A Castiliau Lament" (Del Riego). 8.44: Vocal duet, Miss Myra Sawyer and Miss Mabel Dwyer, "In u Little Old Garden" (Hewitt). 8.47: Sonata for violin and piano, Mr Gordon Short and Miss Ava Symon (Cesar Pranck). 8.52: Contralto solo. Miss Mabel Dyer, "Sapphic Ode" (Brahms). 8.50: Quartet, Celeste Quartet, "O, Happy Eyes" (Elgar). 9: Weather forecast. 9.2: Relay o£ Mauuel Hyman's Exhibition Band from the Adelphi Cabaret. 11: Close down. 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH. (306 Metres.) 6 p.m.: Children's hour, Uncle Sam. 7: Close down. 7.15: News and reports. 7.30: Sporting results. 8: Relay of orchestral selections from Crystal Palace Theatre Orchestra, under the direction df Mr A. J. Bunz. 8.15: Mezzo-soprano solo, Mrs Claris Shaw, "The Language of Love," from "The Country Girl" (Rubens). 8.19: Instrumental trio. Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, "Short Trio" (Bachmann). 8.25 s Songs at piano, Mr E. A. Sargent, (a) "When I Was a Bov at School" (Spurr), (b) "Sandy MoOlusky" (Day). 8.31: Banjolin solo, Mr Gordon Jackson, "Honolulu Moon" (Law> rence). 8.36: Humorous recital, Mr Ronald Foste. "A Clean Sweep" (Cecil). 8.39: Instrumental trios, Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, (a) "In the Woodland" (Albe), (b) "O, Star of Eve" (Wagner), (c) "Polonaise" (Chopin). 8.52: Baritone solo, Mr L slie Scrimshaw. "Love is Mine" (Gartner). 8.55: Songs at piano, Mr E. A. Sargent, "Tho Fine Old English Gentleman (Newman). 9: Relay of orchestral selections from Liberty Theatre. 9.15: Mezzosoprano solo, Mrs Claris Shaw, ' Love s Cigarette" from "The Southern Maid. 9.18: Relay of dance music from Dixieland Cabaret, by kind permission of Mr J, Dickson; music supplied by Les Marston s Dance Orchestra. 9.50: Baritone solo, Mr Leslie Scrimshaw, "Dreams of Long Ago" (Caruso). 9.54: Banjolin solo, Mr Gordon Jackson, "Drifting and Dreaming" (Alstyne Curtis). 9.59: Character studies, humorous, Mr Ronald Foster, (a) "A Dickens Monologue (Simmons), (b) "The Court Session (Covan). 10.5: Instrumental trios, Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, (a) "Laguna Lu - laby" (Hope), (b) "The Answer' Wo - stenholme), (b) "Mazurka" (Mailing). 10.16: Close down.

4YA, DUNEDIX. (463 Metres.) 715 p.m.: News session. 8: Town Hal chimes. 8.1: Pianoforte solo, Miss Muriel Caddie, selected. 8.6: Baritone ,60 los Mr L. M. Cachemaille, (a) "Parted' (Tost ). (b) "Boisetais" (Lully). 813: Violin solo, Mr 11. J. Riddle, "In Paradise" (Kreisler). 8.19: Pianoforte solo, Miss Muriel Caddie selected. 8.24: Mezzo-soprano solos, Miss Agnes Holmes, (a) "You've Got Your Mother's Eyes," (b) O, Thank Me, Not (Mallinson). 8.31: Violin duet, Mews B. Ruffell and H.. J. Riddle, "Adagio « Beriot." 8.3B: Baritone solo. Mr L. M. Cachemaille, "Brian of Olenaar • (Graham). 8.40: Pianoforte solo, Miss Muriel Caddie selected. 8.45: Mezzo-soprano solo, Miss Agnes Holmes, "Sing Joyous Bird (Simmons). 8.50: Violin trio, Messrs J. B£ St va, Riddle and pianist, "Rondo Finale (Bohm) 9: "Wn Hall chimes;_ description of boxing match between Johnnie Leckie and Tommv Griffiths, relayed from His Majesty's Theatre. 10: Close down. 2FC SYDNEY. (442 Metres.) 740 p m Programme announcements. 7 45: Jea'n Gerrard, Melopiano. numbers. 7.53: R. A. Bartleman, baritone. 8: Big Ben": Andrew Higginson and Enid Lavis, entertainers. .8.8: Mabel Batchelor, soprano. 8.16: Roy Ryan, whistling vocalist. 8 21: Scott Alexander will present an original Codrington Ball Radio comedy, entitled "A Pair of Geeso and a Brace ot Goats." 8.36: Andrew Higginson and Enid Lavis, entertainers. 8.46: The Two Festive Carollers." 8.54: Jean Gerrard, Melo-piano numbers. 9: Big Ben: weather forecast.. 9.1: The Ambassadors Dance Orchestra. 9.20: R. A. Bartleman, baritone, from the studio. 9.28: Roy Ryan, whistling vocalist. 9.36: Andrew Higginson and Enid Lavis, entertainers. 9.45. The Ambassadors' Dance Orchestra 9.55. Frota the studio, the "Tw? Festive Carollers. 10.3: Roy Ryan, whistling vocalist. iu.&. Mabel Batchelor, soprano. 10.13: From the Ambassadors, tho Ambassadors' Orchestra. 10 57: Late news and announcements. u. "Big Ben"; the Ambassadors Danco Orchestra until 11.45 p.m. 11.45: Close down.

SUNDAY. IYA, AUCKLAND. (333 Metres.) 3 p.m.: Afternoon session, selected Studio items. 4.30: Close down. 6.55: Relay of church service from St. Matthew's Cathedral Preacher. Rev. Canon Grant-Cowen; organist andchoral director, Mr W. Phillpott. 8.30: Relay of Municipal Band concert from Town Hall. Bandmaster, Mr Christopher Smith. 9.30: Close down. 2YA, WELLINGTON. (420 Metres.) 6 p.m.: Children's service, conducted by Rev E. Weeks. 7: Relay of evening service from Church of Christ. Preacher, Pastor W. G. Carpenter; organist, Miss Phyllis Ladbrook; choirmaster, Mr Will Mason. 8.15: Studio concert by the Apollo Quartet, assisted by Mr Brusey. organist; quartet, Apollo Quartet. "God is a Spirit" (Sterndalc-Ben-nett) : baritone solo. Mr S. E. Rodger, "It is Enough" (Mendelssohn); organ solo, Mr H. Brusey, "Suite Gothiquo" (Boellmann); quartet, Apollo Quartet. "The Chapel" (Kreutzer); tenor solo, Mr Samuel Duncan, "If With All Your Hearts" (Mendelssohn); vocal duet, Messrs Dellow and Bobbins, "Excelsior" (Balfe); baritone solo, Mr Roy Dellow, "Asleep in tho Deep" (Petrie); organ solos, Mr H. Brusey, (a) "Spring Song" (Mendelssohn), (b) "Wedding March" (Mendelssohn): tenor solo, Mr E. W. Robbins. "King Ever Glorious" (Stainer); vocal duet, Messrs Duncan and Rodger, "So Thou Liftcst Thy Divine Petition" (Stainer); quartet. Apollo Quartet, "The Long Day Closes." Close down. 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH. (306 Metres.) 5.45 p.m.: Children's song service from the Studio, by Uncle Sam. 7: Relay of evening service from Shirley Methodist Church; Sunday school anniversary. Preacher, Rev. R. Rainc;- organist, Mr J. Salkeld; conductor, Mr W. D. MarkE. Children's songs, duets, hymns, and choral items. After conclusion of service, Mr Marston Bate and his advanced pupils will give the -following programme from the Studio: Prelude. Septet fir 'cellos. Mr Marston Bate, Miss Esme Parish, Mr Logan Menzies, Mr C. Ell. Miss B. Shearsby. Mr F. Toun. Miss E. Beck, "William Tell" (Puccini); sextet for 'cello.', Mr Marston Bate, Miss Parish, Mr Menzies, Miss Shearsby, Mr Toun, Miss E. Beck, "15-Bar Prelude" (Chopin) : quintet for 'cellos, Mr Bate, Miss Parish. Mr Menzies, Miss Shearsby, Mr Toun. "Adapetto" from opera "L'Arlessiene" (Bizet); trio for 'cellos, Mr Bate. Mr Menzies, Miss Shearsby, "Tempo di Minuetio" from "Sonata" (Beethoven). Close down. 4YA, DUNEDIN. (463 Metres.) 5.45 to 6.30 p.m.: Children's song service, by Big Brother Bill. 6.45: Relay of evening service from First Church of Otago. Preacher, Rev. Dr. E. N. Merrington; organist. Dr. V. E. Galway. 8.30: Relay from St. Kilda (weather permitting) of concert by the St. Kilda Band. Conductor, Mr J. Dixon. Hymn, (a) "Son of My Soul," (b) "Jesu, Lover of My Soul"; march, "The Twentieth Century"; (election, "The Parsifal" (Wag-

"(Di x> ; M overture! "•Raymond" (ThomasX; cornet solo, with band accompaniment, Mr Christie "In a Monastery Garden" (Ketlfbv); fantasi., "Bustle Scenes" (Rimracr); march. "March of the Fearless." 0.20: God Save the King.

3LO, MELBOURNE. (371 Metres.) „,,,.. -.- Evening service from Scots Church. Collins street. Melbourne; 8.30: From the Studfo Agnes Fortune, piano, fchopin) 8.40: Noel Smith, baritone. 8 47: Mr J Hewlett Ross will speak on Robert Louis Stevenson. 9.2: Musical programme arranged by Professor Bernard Heinze. Strinl quartets. Artists: Bernard Heinze. stanlw Tomkins, W. H. S._ Lamble. Louis HnHimhneh 9 42: Noel Smith, baritone. 9 H O: "Argus" new, service: Island steamer™ movements; announcements. 10.1. God Save The King.

2FC, SYDNEY. (442 metres.) R r m • "Big Ben" and announcements, nv Brveon Taylor, tenor. 6.9: Mr &. H. •'How to "•*•»*""*£ 6"-->- Winifred Jenner, mezzo. 6.27: Bruno, Gibb in. short story. 6.42: Doreen Wash will present a programme of Maori music; Mriori 601158 will be interpreted of Bryeo.l Tavlor (tenor), Norman McLennan (baritone), ani Winifred'Jenner (mezzo) «•«■ *°™» n McLennan, baritone. 0.27: Hie Bells of St. Mark's 7 30: From the St. Mark's Church of England. Darling Point, evening service. S3O- From the Band Rotunda, Manly beach -The Manly Municipal Band. 9.30: Irom the Studio-The second appearuice c Mr Peter Gawthorne, well-known, English baritone 9 42: Lionel Lawson, violinist. J.o-,: Peter Gawthorne, English baritone. 10..: Lionel Lawson, violinist. 10.10: Close down. LESSONS BY RADIO. In order to' test the possibilities of broadcasting lessons by wireless the Education Department has arranged • with the Broadcasting Company of New Zealand, Limited, in conjunction with several firms of radio dealers, to broadcast .a special programme hom the Wellington station, 2YA, between •2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on December 13th. Receiving sots are being installed in a number of selected schools, so that the nature of tlio reception may bo ascertained. The programme that has been arranged includes musical items, and short addresses by the diiector, the Chief Inspector, the- Supervisor of School Music, and the chief physical instructor. n The ultimate object of the scheme is to have wireless sets installed in every school of any size in the Dominion. The programme will, in all probability, be as follows:—Mr Douglas Tavler. children's choir; thi> director, a short talk to empils; Mr Longworth, a short talk on school games; Mr Bird, a literary lesson; Mr Douglas Tayler. interpretation of a gramophone record of some instrument in melody forming, using the piano or violin. The localities of the selected schools arc as follows:—Auckland. Now Plymouth, Whangarei, Te Kuiti, Taurenga, Rotorua, Stratford, Wanganui, Palmerston North. Taihape, Gisborne, Napier, Dannevirke, Reikerangi, Masterton, Rai Valley. Denniston, Westport, Nelson, Fairlie, Hokitika. Akaroa, Timaru, Christchurch, Dunedin, Oamaru, Ealchitha. Alexandra, Otautau. and Invercargill. In addition to the localities mentioned there are probably a, large number of teachers • scattered throughout the Dominion who will be in a position to assist the Department by having radio sets installed on the date mentioned.

BOXING CONTEST. A description of the feather-weight boxing championship of New Zealand, Leckie y. Griffiths, will be broadcast from 4YA this evening. The match is timed to commence about 9 o'clock. MIGRATION OF BIRDS. A NOVEL THEORY. A novel and somewhat startling solution now is advanced for the longpuzzling problem of the migratory instincts of birds and insects. Hitherto these have been attributed, though unconvincingly, to their ordinary but extremely acute physical senses. M. Georges Lakhowsky, however, destructively eliminates all such theories and substitutes the daring proposition that such animals are guided in their flight by the same electro-magnetic waves that are employed in wireless telegraphy and radio broadcasting. In support of this he submits that the apparatus of radio communication corresponds with some of the most intimate structure of animal bodies In the insects there are the antennae, while in vertebrate animals there are i other organs which serve the purpose. It is the living cell which is the Seat of the electro-magnetic acting as both a receiver and transmitter. The miracle of it is that the eel! permits the existence of an isolated conducting liquid filament, which according to circumstances, is both an oscillator and a resonator of very short waves. And so the carrier pigeon and the bee make use of the radio, even without knowing it. TrlE RHEOSTAT of Ohm R The Set Maker (Radio version from the Persian). I. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Workshop and Lab' #nd heard loud Argument On this Way versus that arid which was worse, "Til like Revolving Doors around we went. 11. Strange, is it not, that Electricity, Sometimes called Life, is still a Mystery ? We only know what it can do—not how, , For no two scientists can yet agree. 111. The The-o-ry advanced on yesterday, In light of present practice is passe, While what "unborn to-morrows" may bring forth The Seventh Son of Seventh Son can t say. IV. Great things are often hit upon by Chance With Wisdom beaten out by ignorance; , So too much Learning should be of

Concern, Since sometimes Cases alter Circumstance.

With reference to the proposed Church of England station in Auckland, an Auckland writer, reviewing the position generally, states that all listeners in New Zealand will benefit by the programmes which will be transmitted from the station proposed. Music, literature, and cultural subjects will possibly be blended with lighter entertainment; and the main object of the station will be to set. fort: the truths for the promulgation of which it will be erected. As no revenue from the license fees will be forthcoming, an Association has lieen formed with a membership subscription of £1 or more, from which it is hoped to finance the station. About £BOOO is the initial sum aimed at, with an annual revenue of £4OOO or £SOOO. If it is possible to obtain sanction for the broadcasting of advertisements —quite a legitimate method of assisting finance—then the position will be made much easier. There appears to be no reason why such permission should be refused, especially when bearing in mind the nature of the work to be undertaken. The Government has already appointed dual wave-lengths from the new station, these being 33 and 23i metres.