Items From The ZB’s

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 163, 7 August 1942, Page 9

Items From The ZB’s

O you listen to the Laugh of the Week broadcast from 4ZB on Tuesdays at 10 p.m.? The other week, the announcer, finding himself short of something to say, filled in the gap by hastily extemporising an entry competition between the North and the South Islands. Entries came in from as far north as Whangarei, the winning entry being from Feilding. It is said that Dunedin had to go as far afield as Feilding to get a realiy good joke, and that Dunedin audiences are still waiting to see the point of it. co ES a ON a recent wet and windy Monday night the 2ZB "Give It a Name" Quiz Class was one competitor short, and W, Ryan, of Wellington, filled the breach-and won £13! In the last few months the same man has won £40. Is he 2ZB’s answer to the encyclopedic Mrs. Clark of Christchurch? * % * RANK BROAD, a veteran of variety as well as a veteran of the last war, who has been a soldier for the past two years, is back in his old place in 1ZB’s Programme Department. And his return is welcomed, not merely because of his rich store of reminiscences of the stage in the days of footlights and flesh and blood, but also because of his memory of the thousands of discs in his record library which, even after two years in the army, has not faded. * * * STATION 2ZA, Palmerston North, has started a new competition programme. It is called Melody Manipulations, and comprises two sections. In the first part five records are played, and listeners are asked to place them in order of popularity. The entries decide which is the correct order. The second part of the competition is rather different: listeners are asked to make up a short

sentence from the words in the titles of the records. Prizes are awarded in both sections, but if no correct list of records in order of popularity is submitted the prize for the first section is jackpotted up each week. * * * OY SCOUTS have plenty of scope for good deeds these days-collect-ing waste materials, running messages, and practising first-aid. They are now giving service in a new way with their session of songs, "Round the Campfire," broadcast from 3ZB each Monday at 5 p.m. Girl Guides are keen rivals, and also take their turn at the 3ZB microphone.