Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 21

Items From The ZB's

LTHOUGH not a. high-powered A 2ZA, Palmerston North, has listeners in many distant and lonely places, among them the Chatham Islands. Mrs. S. P. Troy, wife of the manager of a 15,000-acre sheep station there, and formerly of Palmerston North, has told 2ZA how, for several months after the sinking of the Holmwood by a German raider, she and her husband depended on their batteryoperated radio for contact with the outside world, and 2ZA provided much of their news and entertainment. Their homestead is 30 miles from Waitangi, the main settlement of the Chathams, and a trip to town means a long and difficult ride on horseback, four miles of it through the shallows of a’ 46,000-acre lake. Soon the homestead will be linked for the first time with Waitangi by telephone. . * * * OST EMPIRE, the story of an attempt to found a Russian colony on the West Coast of America, is finishing, and the CBS is replacing it with a re-playing of The Citadel, a radio adaptation of Dr. A. J. Cronin’s book. The Citadel will start from 2ZB on April 13; 1ZB, April 20; 3ZB, April 27; and 4ZB, on May 4. A short space in between the playing of the two features will be filled by a musical session. There is an amendment to the playing times of another national feature, Doctor Mac, now heard three nights a week from all stations, on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. * * * ROM 3ZB: One of the station’s cleverest young entertainers is Edna Graham, who first appeared in front of the microphone in a children’s session, and after gaining experience has now organised her own party of child artists. They are heard in programmes of solo items and musical sketches every Friday night at five o’clock. Another novel children’s session at 3ZB is Believe It or Not (every Monday at 5.0 p.m.), conducted by a young Christchurch girl, Lyn Williams. * * OTES from 1ZB: A young artist heard in recent "Kaleidoscope" and Novachord programmes from the Radio Theatre is Joy Asquith, who is well known at 1ZB, and is now living at Whangarei. She has a rich contralto Voice, and is taking part in several of Arthur Collyns’s recorded "All Over the Place" programmes. Ken Lord, who conducts a Stamp Collectors’ session for the children every Thursday, is raising money for patriotic funds by the sale of stamps. They are used New Zealand issues in common currency; but "they have arrived in such from collectors in offices and businesses all over Auckland that to date £130 has been raised. In common with other ZB stations, 1ZB is satisfying Auckland listeners’ curiosity .concerrirg radio personalities and what goes on backstage at the studios with a session entitled Behind the Microphone.