Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 24

Around The Nationals

ISS Helen Zahara, who has M recently returned to Wellington after living for seven years in Sydney, will begin a series of weekly broadcasts from 2YA on Monday, December 8. In her first talk, Miss Zahara, who was treasurer of the New Zealand Younger Set of N.S.W. Club, will speak of the various New Zealand Association’ which are socially active in and around Sydney, including the Polynesian Club, to which belong most Maori folk who live across the Tasman. %* * * | LISTENERS to 2YD will be interested to hear that a number of new serials will shortly be heard from this station. Beginning on December 14, there will be the radio adaptation of Joan Butler’s popular comedy Lost Property, and also the opening episode > of the Australian production Rally to. the Flag. For January, 2YD_ has scheduled the first instalment of Bluey, the adventures of a small boy whose drolleries have already amused some of us in the comic strips, Hopalong Cassidy, the Mighty Minites, Parker of the Yard, and a new Australian production, Baffles, are other January starters. * * % "RIVER of Ships — The Clyde," is the title of the BBC recorded production which will be heard from 2YA at 8 p.m. on Friday, December 12. The Clyde, lacking by some mischance her poets, has become a river of prose and fact. The craftsmen of Glasgow and Clydeside are unsurpassed anywhere in the world for their skill, tenacity, and good humour. They work and live by the Clyde, and when a break in the daily toil occurs, they like nothing better than to go "doon the watter" to one of the many beauty spots with which Nature solaces the last hours of the river. * * * [N Christchurch next Sunday, December 7, there will be a Combined Churches Citizens’ Service of Intercession, which will be held at the Civic Theatre at 2.30 p.m., and which will be relayed by Station 3YA. His Excellency, Sir Cyril Newall, and Lady Newall, will be present, and the former will read the Lesson during the service. Archdeacon A. J. Petrie will conduct the prayers, and an address will be given by D. W. Russell, president of the Christchurch branch of the R.S.A. The Orpheus Choir will lead the singing, with Melville Lawry at the organ. * * * VERA MARTIN (contralto), will ‘" broadcast. with the Christchurch Male Voice Choir in a concert which is to be relayed from the Radiant Hall at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 10. ' Claude Burrows (baritone), and Ernest Rogers (tenor), will be the other soloists, and the Male Voice Choir will be heard in a number of popular items, including the English folk-tune "There Was a Maid Went to the Mill," arranged by Whittaker. On the following Friday, the Christchurch Liedertafel conducted by Victor Peters, will be heard over the air, in a 3YA Studio Concert, beginning at 8.4 p.m A