YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB
Broadcast From 2ZA {HE Young Farmers’ Club, which has been broadcasting from 2ZA J on ‘Tuesday nights at 8.45 for the past 142 months, put on a special half-hour session for Christmas and New Year, consisting of talent from the Young Farmers’ Clubs in and around Palmerston North. The show was compered by Mr. Sherwood, who is one of the active members of the Young Farmers’ Club movee ment. The microphone was taken over to a woolshed, where the " boys’ were having a little party in celebration of the festive season. Piano accordion solos, vocal duets and quartets and solos, with some bright commentary made the session a highlight of the eveninge’s programme. For the New Year’s programme the Station Director invited the "boys" back to the studio to be the guests of the Station. The whole party went well until someone put on a sound effect of a cow mooing and a dog. barking, whereupon one young farmer remarked that it sounded too much like ‘" Home Sweet Home" to him! This broke up the party; but not before they had sung * Auld Lang Syne,’ wished each other well, and decided that broadcasting was not such a bad business after all.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 48
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204YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 48
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