Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 21

Items From The ZB's

week’s Listener comes from Station 2ZA, Palmerston North, which, as the story suggested, played an important part in the emergency situation created by the taking over of Palmerston North schools by the mili tary authorities. Since school, in the ordinary sense was out of the question, the children were organised into teams, which in turn visited various industries, community centres and places of interest around the city. Every morning at 7.45 o'clock, 2ZA advised the children of their rendezvous for the day, and figures indicated, the station says, that 98 per cent of the children heard the broadcast. a * * PORT and heraldry may not seem to be subjects easily .combined in »@ sports talk, but that is what "The Toff,’ 3ZB’s sporting commentator, achieved in a recent Sunday morning broadcast. Heraldry is his hobby, He has been consulted by institutions all over Australia and New Zealand, and he has traced the coats of arms of 170 old Dominion families. Until recently, "The Toff’ was heard from 3ZB in racing previews only, but he has now taken over all 3ZB’s sporting sessions and is on the air six times a week. He gives racing previews at 10.30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays and 8.20 a..m. on Saturdays; a general sports review on Fridays at 7.0 p.m., sports results at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays; and a general sports talk on Sunday mornings at 11.45. * * * ISTENERS to the ZB’S who enjoyed the spy drama The Enemy Within, will be interested in its successor, Coast Patrol, another serial with a flavour of war and espionage. Much of the action takes place at an Air Force station somewhere on the coast of England, and the main characters are officers of Coastal Command Station 350, a British secret service man, a mysterious Dutch painter, an equally mysterious Yvonne Maher, and Sandra Gray, the heroine, who lives happily ever aftér with a Squadron-Leader. Coastal Patrol is on the air from 2ZB at 6.30 p.m. every Monday and Tuesday, and is also currently broadcast by 3ZB and 4ZB. * * * Bad Boy, the serial with which the N.E.F. series of programmes from the ZB stations is winding up, tells the story of young Fred Willowday, whose ezrly life is warped by an unhappy home and lack of affection, and who progresses from petty thefts at school to more serious errors. These land him first of all in the charge of a Child Welfare officer and later in a Children’s Court, where a magistrate commits him to the strict discipline of a special institution. Ultimately, however, he is offered work on a farm, where he finds kindly foster parents and an affection and security which transform his character. A simple tale, simply told and ending on a happy note, Bad Boy gives well deserved publicity to the work being done in New Zealand to salvage young lives. FOOTNOTE to the story "Children Without Schools" in last