DUNEDIN'S RADIO QUEENS
4ZB Personalities Prominent In £100,000 Drive
INCE the Great War of 1914, radio has emerged from the position of a new and experimental means of communication to something which is part and parcel of everyone’s life. It was inevitable that, with the re-opening of hostilities between the Allies and Germany last year, radio should immediately challenge the printed word as our first line of information. However it is not only as a news medium that modern radio broadcasting has an important war-time role to play. The folk who serve the public day in and day out at the microphone become welcome guests in nearly every home, and their friendly voices are good company throughout the day for housewives as they busy themselves with household tasks. They are not merely well known names-they are on speaking terms with thousands of people, and so it has come about that in choosing three " leading ladies" for the great £100,000 Otago Queen Carnival, the Dunedin citizens in charge of patriotic activities selected two of their Queens from the local Commercial Station. Jessie McLennan and’ Airini Grennell represent the Navy and the Army respectively, with Mary Pratt, well-known contralto, as the Air Force Queen. Dunedin listeners remember with pleasure Miss Pratt’s recent appearance before the 4ZB microphone in a group of patriotic songs, and
there is every indication that the friendly battle for supremacy between these three popular women will make certain the attainment of the committee’s goal of £100,000,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 40
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248DUNEDIN'S RADIO QUEENS New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 40
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