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Arrangements have been made for all the national broadcasting stations to rebroadcast a commentary on the play in the Springboks' match against iNew South Wales on Saturday week.- The broadcast will be from 4.45 p.m. to 6.25 p.m. Test match commentaries will also be broadcast on July 10 and July 17.: ' '
The 'latest returns issued by the Post and Telegraph Department show that radio. sets" in New . Zealand number 2261476. . .Wellingtpn"leads the other three main 'centres with a total of just over '80,000 licences, and- Auckland comes' next with nearly 73,000. The southern districts, however, lag behind considerably, the totals of Christchurch and Dunedin being 42,000 and 31,000 respectively. ' ." ' . ' '..''..'
On Saturday week at 7.30 2YA will rebr.badcast from the Empire shortwave' station at Daventry a talk by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, on "The Responsibilities of Empire." -•■■■•••■. ... Essie Ackland, the celebrated Australian contralto, will commence her New Zealand broadcasting tour at 2YA at 9.45 next Thursday, when she will broadcast a fifteen-minute recital of popular • songs.. • ■' "■■ ■- ■ A feature which shouid-be well worth listening to will be the .presentation from IYA on Sunday at 8.30 p.m. of Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew." -The presentation will be by Mr. J. W. Bailey, and- his players.
Mr. Byron Brown, the eminent Shakespearean authority, has been engaged by the broadcasting officials to broadcast a series of talks exploding popular fallacies'. His first talk will be.devoted to controverting the fallacy "Shakespeare Does • Not' .Pay." Arrangements have been completed for a special broadcast by .all the YA stations at 9.5 p.m: on.Friday week of a radio panorama depicting seventy years' progress in railway development and achievement.' This will, serve as a prelude to a broadcast by all the national stations at. 10.30 a.m. on Saturday week of the ceremony of the opening of the new railway station at Wellington. . ■ : . v ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 28
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316IN BRIEF Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 28
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