FEATURES FROM THE ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 10

FEATURES FROM THE ZB's

CBS have been busy for the past week or so planning Christmas Day entertainment. Although the stations normally close at midnight, most of them will stay on the air on Christmas Eve for the benefit of those who want to keep parties going. At 6.0 a.m, all stations will greet listeners with carols and other appropriate music, and throughout the day many of the usual ZB features will be broadcast, without commercial messages, but including instead greetings from the sponsors, At nine o’clock, the Controller of Commercial Broadcasting, C. G. Scrimgeour, will broadcast a Christmas message on behalf of the CBS. At 9.45 p.m. all stations will relay Christmas greetings from the heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to the forces in the Dominion, The Minister of Defence, the Hon, F, Jones, will send a short message, and he will be followed by Commodore W. E. Parry, First Naval Member; MajorGeneral E. Puttick, Chief of General Staff; Air-Commodore H. W. L. Saunders, retiring Chief of Air Staff; the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., President of the N.Z.R.S.A.; Matron Willis, Chief of the Army Nursing Service, and Captain F. A. Macindoe, representing the Merchant Navy. be organisers of the i

The Christmas Day musical session at noon will be conducted over the ZB network by "Scrim," and at 1.0 p.m. there will be a link-up with NBS stations for the "Victory Toast." This has been arranged by the R.S.A., who suggest that at one o’clock on Christmas afternoon, listeners, wherever they are, shall observe one minute of silent contemplation and turn their thoughts to the men and women in the Navy, Army, and Air Force, to the oppressed people in all occupied countries, and to the King and Queen and Empire leaders. Following this comes a toast, " The Victory V." Station 3ZB announcers have planned something special in the way of appropriate programmes, and on Christmas Day each will take his turn at the microphone. ¥. From the 1ZB Radio Theatre on Christmas night, the Royal Auckland Male Choir, one of New Zealand’s finest choirs, will give a recital. Soloists will be Sybil Phillipps, soprano, and Eric Bell at the Novachord. An outstanding evening feature from all ZB stations is the Academy Award play "Green Branches," at 8,0 p.m., following the headline news from London. In this play, which presents once again the Christmas message of " Peace on earth, goodwill toward all’ men," Ona Munsen plays the leading role,