Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 99, 16 May 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

STATION 4ZB has done a big job during the last few years in raising money for charitable and patriotic purposes, and recently a concert given by children associated with the station’s sessions for young folk added approximately £100 to the Comforts for Fighters’ Fund. Children from the "Happy Feet Club,’ the " Musical Army" and "Sunbeam’s Club" and the " Junior Radio Players" contributed the items, and Peter of 4ZB and Joe Brown of the Happy Feet Club looked after the organising. Both concerts played to packed halls, | « " i STATION 2ZB celebrated its fourth anniversary the other week with a commemorative cavalcade of entertainment and special features presented over the station since it was opened late in April, 1937. The excerpts from old programmes such as What’s Your Business?, Knock Knock, Laugh of the Week, One Man’s Family, Mutiny on the Bounty and Hymns of All Churches must have brought back many pleasant memories to listeners. Then, to underline the swift march of those four years, came extracts from once topical talks, interviews and commentaries — the arrival of the Empress of Britain in Wellington, the landing of the Samoan Clipper at Auckland on her first flight to New Zealand, the general elections of 1938, the Dominion Monarch, ‘the first Easter Sunrise Service, the outbreak of war, the Centennial celebrations and sidelights on many other memorable events. The broadcast was brought to an end, with birthday greetings from C. G. Scrimgeour, Controller of Commercial Broadcasting. * * * YNDALL BARBOUR, whose picture appeared on this page last week, is one of the clever Australian radio artists who appears with Lou Vernon in Doctor Mac, which is heard at 9.0 p,m. every Tuesday and Saturday from all ZB stations. Although Doctor Mac has been on the air before, this is an entirely new series, and none of the episodes played before will be heard again. The character of Doctor Mac himself, of course, remains unchanged, and although the situations are new, he is just the same lovable old country doctor whe charmed so many listeners previously. Lou Vernon, who plays the name part in Doctor Mac, has just: been selected from a long list of possibilities to play Cappy Ricks in the serial of that name. It will doubtless be heard in New Zealand before very Icng. * ~ * ATEST service to 2ZB listeners is a weekly session for the blind every Sunday afternoon at 4.45. It is con ducted by Miss Clarice E. Brown, who is herself partly blind, and it consists of news and notes supplied by blind societies. The session will give service and enjoyment to a section of the community which relies almost completely on the radio for entertainment. Miss Brown was introduced to listeners last Sunday by Mrs. Knox Gilmer, President of the Wellington Blind Club.