"APPLE QUEST" Provides Lively Fun

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 16

"APPLE QUEST" Provides Lively Fun

interest in the weekly Apple Quest, conducted every Saturday night by the ZB stations, appears to grow apace, and several local cliarities, not forgetting the Controller of Nonferrous Metals, have benefited from donations of the many articles collected. One item on the list for 2ZB’s third quest was a jar of apple jelly, and early the following week, several dozen jars were passed on to the Wellington Cit Mission. Another item was a large square of clean linen, which went to the Air Force, and Aunt Daisy’s appeal for Yale keys also received a "boost." Of humorous sidelights there have naturally been plenty. During 2ZB’s second quest, one of the articles specified was an apple tart, and the winners, two youths who lived at Karori, arrived at the studio with an apple tart which was obviously fresh from the oven. They explained that while they were collecting the other articles, their mother swiftly baked the tart. One Saturday night, 2ZB received a *phone call from a party of listeners in Wanganui who collected the complete list within 20 minutes. They knew they did not qualify for a prize, but all the same, TL the Dominion,

they were grateful for 20 minutes of lively fun: Station 4ZB is having such a busy time coping with "scavenger hunts" that it has been necessary to keep a_ considerable staff working back on Saturday nights. One of the articles recently specified by 3ZB was the signature of A. M. Prentice, secretary of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Mr. Prentice had been warned what to expect, and had written out 52 signatures in readiness. Within a minute and a-half of the list being read over the air, the first ring came at his front door, and a few minutes later came a rush of competitors on foot, on bicycles, on motor-cycles and in cars. His 52 signatures were soon exhausted.