ON THE AIR
New Zealand broadcasting stations transmit as follows: TO-DAY IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. Silent day. IZB Auckland:—275 metres, 50 watts. 6.30 p.m., children’s hour; 7.30 p.m., programme arranged by C. Pearson. IZQ Auckland: — 253 metres, 50 watts. S p.m., records; 8.15 p.m., instrumental trio, violin, cello, piano; 5.30, radio talk, Roy Keith, “Building a short-wave Receiver”; 5.45, records; 9, scientific news review; 9.15, trio, 9.30, records.; 9.45, to 10 p.m., dance music. * * * 2YA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watts. 3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's session, Aunt Gwen and Uncle Jeff; 7 p.m., news; 7.40 p.m., talk, Mr. South. “Books, Grave and Gay’’; orchestra, “Rackozv”; soprano, Miss Briggs, “When Celia Sings”; trio, “Trio” (Marx); recital, Mr. Warwick, “Corialanus’s Speech”; baritone, Mr. Prouse, (a) “Not Quite Alone,” (b) “Come Not When I Am Dead,” (c) “Prince Ivan’s Song,” (d) “Roll of the Brums”; orchestra, request number; vocal, Ariel Singers, “A Song of Rest”; bass, Mr. Caldwell, (a) “Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride,” (b) “The Turn of the Year”; orchestra, “Ballet -Music from “Hiawatha”; mezzo-contralto, Miss Coster, (a) “Love’s Whisper,” (b) “Lullaby”; tenor, Mr. Hill, (a) “The Sea,” (b) “The Roadside Fire”; orchestra, (a) ’ Alt Wien,” (b) “Caprice”; recitals, Mr Warwick, (a) “A Pair of Platonics,” (b) “Smithson’s Party”; soprano, Missl Briggs, (a) “SyrmOvei Peid,” (b) “The Robin’s Song”; vocal, Messrs. Hill and Caldwell, “The Outpost Vigil”; orchestra, “Slavonic Rhapsody No. 2” (Dvorak). " 3YA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts 3 p.m., afternoon session; 6 p.m., children’s session. Scatterjoy and Aunt Pat; 7.15, news; 7.30 p.m., talk on ‘‘Esparanto”; 8 p.m., Christchurch Municipal Band, “Mount Egmont”; tenor, Mr. Bradshaw, (a) “I’ll Sing Three Songs of Araby,” (b) “Thora”; humour, Miss Hooper, “The Dancing Partner”; selection, Band, “Pirates of Penzance”; contralto, Mrs. Stallard, (a) “There’s a Land,” (b) “Waiting,” (c) “Waiata Maori”; Band, “Nearer My God to Thee”; soprano, Mrs. Lawrence, (a) “A Thousand Years from Now,” (b) “A Romance,” (c) “Louise”; Band, “Druid’s Prayer”; recital, Miss Hooper, “Peg o’ My Heart”; overture, Band, “Tancredia”; baritone, Mr. Dowell, (a) “Marguerite,” (b) “Schooldav Sweethearts”; Band, “Advance Guards.” 4YA, Dunedin 463 metres, 250 watts Silent day. TO-MORROW IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. 3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., childrens hour, Uncle George; 7.15 p.m., news; 8 p.m., relay from Majestic Theatre; contralto, Madame I Ainsley, (a) “In Haven,” (b) “Where Corals Lie”; Auckland Trio, “Humoresque and March”; tenor, Mr. L. Wilson, “Maire, My Girl”; soprano, Miss A. Rodgers, “Arise, O Sun”; organ, ‘‘Serenade”; baritone, Mr. W. Brough, “Border Ballad”; violin and piano. Miss I. Boswortli and Mr. C. Towsey, “First Movement” from “Kreutzer Sonata”; contralto, Madame Ainsley, “Happy Song”; organ, “Bells Across the Meadows”; talk, Mr. A. B. Chappell, M.A., “Founding the Capital”; relay from Majestic Theatre; tenor, Mr. A. Ripley, “An Evening Song”; Auckland Trio, “Waltz of the Flowers”; excerpts from “The Lily of Killarney” (Benedict). Cast: Eily O’Connor, Miss A. Rodgers; Wardress Cregan, Mr. A. Ripley; Miles, Air. 1.. Wilson; and Father Tom, Mr. W. Brough. Items include “The Moon has Raised,” “It is a Charming Girl I Love,” “Let the Farmer Praise His Ground,” “In My Lone Mountain Valley,” “With this Treasure I Must Part,” “Eileen Alavourneen,” and “Hands that Taper Back.” 2YA Wellington: 371 metres, 5,000 watts. 3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's hour, Big Brother Jack; 7 p.m., news; 7.40 p.m., lecturette, “For the Man on the Land”; 8 p.m., overture, orchesira. “Poet and Peasant”; vocal, Mrs. A. Harris and Aliss L. Mackie, “A Summer Evening”; piano, Ariss M. Gibson, (a) “Romance,” (b) “Hark, Hark, the Lark”; baritone, Mr. L. Barnes, (a) “Kashmiri Song,” (b) “Less Than the Dust.” (c) “Pale Hands I Loved,” (d) “Till I Wake”; steel guitar, Alessrs. Berthold and Bent, (a) “Blue Skies.” (b) “Among My Souvenirs”; contralto. Aliss L. Alackie, “Sands o’ Dee”; organ, Air. H. Temple AVbite. (a) “Song of Melody,” (b) “Urbs Beata”: humour. Air. D. Stark, “McKay”; orchestra, request item: songs at the Piano, Air. B. Hart, (a) “Aline, All Aline”; steel guitar, Alessrs. Berthold and Bent, (a) "Because I Love You.” (b) “Hawaiian Dreams"; tenor, Air. A. Coe, “The Brightest Day”; humour, Air. D. Stark, “The Ballad-Singer”: soprano, Mrs. A. Harris, “Rose Softly Blooming”: orchestra, “Virginia”; song cycle, Orpheus Quartet, “The Pageant of Summer, including: quartet, “Flowers for You”; soprano, Airs. A. Harris, “What o’clock?”; contralto, Aliss L. Mackie, ‘‘Meadowsweet”; duet, Tlrs. A. Harris and Air. L. Barnes, “None So Pretty”; tenor, Air. A. Coe, “Shy Alignonette”: baritone, Air. L. Barnes, “Traveller’s .Toy”: and quartet, “Speedwell”; orchestra, dance numbers. 3YA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts. Silent Day. 4YA Dunedin:—463 metres, 250 watts. 3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's hour. Big Brother Bill; 7.30 p.m., talk on “Health”; 8 p.m., concert by the St. Kilda Band and vocalists.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 8
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