Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

[ NTERVIEWED by Gran recently over 1ZB was Mrs. H. Pooley, of Atickland, who described a flight across the Tasman by flying boat. The interesting point about. the flight, however, is the fact that Mrs. Pooley is 80 years of age, and was the oldest passenger who has yet flown the Tasman. She flew to Sydney to be present at the wedding of her grandson, and enjoyed the trip so much, she assured listeners, that she hopes to make it again some day. Mrs. Pooley was born in Auckland, at the foot of what is now Vincent Street, and she and her husband were the original caretakers of Rangitoto Island. A picture of Mrs. Pooley and Gran appears on page 42, ok * % STATION 2ZA is finding that Palmerston North listeners are taking a keen interest in the "Yes! No! Jackpots" session which is broadcast every Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 8 p.m, and sufficient entries are on hand to carry on the broadcasts for several months to come. One prize is already up to £3/3/- and is increasing by 4/6 every week. * ve Fe O other folk music has quite the same appeal as Hawaiian music, and "Hawaiiana," which is heard every Sunday morning at 11.30 from 3ZB, has for months past drawn a big listening audience. Owing to changes in the station’s daytime programme plan this session has been transferred to Monday morning, and the hour is now 11 o’clock. "Hawaiiana" is compéred by 3ZB’s Maori announcer, Te Ari Pitama, and consists of musical recordings interspersed with travelogue material and fragments of Polynesian folk lore, * * * NEW feature from all the ZB stations (every Friday at 9 p.m.) is "Mighty Moments in the Lives of Famous Men." A series of adventure stories, it takes as its subject a number of brave men who have fought-and died -in the service of the Empire. An early episode, for instance, deals with Lieutenant Philpott, who lead a band of soldiers against the Maoris in 1845, in the time of Governor Fitzroy, = * * ETTY SPIRO, runner-up in the 1ZB Deanna Durbin Quest three years ago, broadcast a quarter-hour programme from Station 2ZB on Sunday, January 12. Accompanied by Reg. Morgan she sang "Alice Blue Gown," "I Wonder If Love is a Dream," and "The Piper from Over the Way." * * 7 PALMERSTON NORTH’S "Thumbs Up" Club added a finishing touch to 1940 with an interesting broadcast over 2ZA, when a cheque amounting to nearly £300 was presented to A. E. Mansford, Mayor of Palmerston North. The club had raised this amount by the collection of pennies and by an art union for the "Heart to Heart" appeal. The " Thumbs Up" Club has a session over 2ZA every Friday night, and is active in many good works. A month or two ago a bottle drive was organised, and subsequently over 3,000 books and magazines were collected for the troops. The club has a membership of nearly 3,000.