THREE months ago Station 2ZB opened an "Answer Please" session—a modest New Zealand edition of the BBC's famous Brains Trust. Like many comparatively new ventures, it got off to a moderate start, but soon settled down to a steady pace, and now the panel answers questions which are sent to the Station from as far south as Timaru and as far north as Auckland. A disproportionately large number of queries comes from Wanganui where the thirst for general knowledge seems to be insatiable. Listeners whose questions are used receive a prize—plus half-a-guinea if the question beats the experts. Every Monday night at 6.30, for just on half an hour, the panel of four is faced with a wide variety of questions—Why is a two-shilling piece called a florin? Who are the two New Zealand cricketers who hold a world's partnership record? What is the largest painting in the world? This is the sort of test put to the quartet (seen above) which numbers, from left te right, W. J. Wilson (Wellington journalist), Howard Wadman (writer, lecturer, and advertising man), Allona Priestley (member of the board of the Wellington Y.W.C.A., play-producer, and radio speaker), and J. R. Lamason (whose name is well-known to most followers of cricket and Rugby). The session is expected to last for several months at least. Maurice Hawken is the compère.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 20

THREE months ago Station 2ZB opened an "Answer Please" session—a modest New Zealand edition of the BBC's famous Brains Trust. Like many comparatively new ventures, it got off to a moderate start, but soon settled down to a steady pace, and now the panel answers questions which are sent to the Station from as far south as Timaru and as far north as Auckland. A disproportionately large number of queries comes from Wanganui where the thirst for general knowledge seems to be insatiable. Listeners whose questions are used receive a prize—plus half-a-guinea if the question beats the experts. Every Monday night at 6.30, for just on half an hour, the panel of four is faced with a wide variety of questions—Why is a two-shilling piece called a florin? Who are the two New Zealand cricketers who hold a world's partnership record? What is the largest painting in the world? This is the sort of test put to the quartet (seen above) which numbers, from left te right, W. J. Wilson (Wellington journalist), Howard Wadman (writer, lecturer, and advertising man), Allona Priestley (member of the board of the Wellington Y.W.C.A., play-producer, and radio speaker), and J. R. Lamason (whose name is well-known to most followers of cricket and Rugby). The session is expected to last for several months at least. Maurice Hawken is the compère.