HAMILTON ON THE AIR

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 17

HAMILTON ON THE AIR

Mobile Unit Programme trom 1ZB —

SERIES of sound and word pictures of Hamilton City and other centres in ‘the Auckland province, recorded by the Mobile Unit of the NZBS, will be broadcast by 1ZB on Sunday afternoons at 4 o’clock, starting on July 25. In these half-hour programmes listeners will hear a little of the local history of Hamilton, Morrinsville, Te Aroha, Thames, Coromandel, Paeroa and. Waihi. Interviews with old inhabitants and samples of the musical talent of each centre will also be presented. The first broadcast of this Auckland section of History and Harmony in New Zealand will feature a few brief stories of the founding of Hamilton and musical items by the Hamilton City Orchestra and the Hamilton Choir. Ee ce h (CHARLES PATTERSON and Robert Rees, duo pianists who specialise in ‘musical comedy selections and arrangements of popular songs, waltzes and tangos, will be heard in a broadcast from 1ZB at 5.45 p.m. on Sunday, July 18. Patterson was formerly pianist on the liners Aorangi and Niagara and later went to Italy with, the Kiwi Concert Party, becoming musical director when Terry Vaughan left for home. , Rees has been associated with touring companies and has worked with George Formby, Ella Shields, Ormond’ Douglas, and Lillian Roth. % * * HEN 1ZB’s Music at Eight programme is broadcast’ on Sunday, July 18, listeners will hear Mary Negus (soprano), Stewart Harvey (baritone), afid Eric Craig (violinist), Mary Negus will sing "Farewell," by Simson, and "Rackety Coo," by Friml; Romberg’s "Riff Song" and Coates’s "Song of Loyalty" will be sung by Stewart Harvey, and Eric Craig will play "Malaguena," by Sarasate. The 1ZB Salon Orchestra will give selections during the — programme. * * g IRESIDE FUN, a new form of the ubiquitous quiz has got away to a flying start in Dunedin. The idea of this session is to conduct a round-the-fireside quiz from the home of a listener, a different home being selected by the sponsor each week. Contestants may be the householders or their friends, but a team is arranged and questions taken from a hat. If the question is answered correctly the winning member of the team receives a gift from the sponsor, and an extra prize, if not won, carries over to the following week. The sponsor’s generosity goes further-he presents the family in whose home the quiz takes place with a special gift. Fireside Fun is- heard from 4ZB on Thursdays at 8.45 p.m. * * "te ‘THE BBC Transcription Service has issued another Paul Temple serial, Paul Temple and Steve, which will be good news for the admirers of Francis Durbridgeé’s detective. This latest serial was broadcast originally in the BBC’s Light Programme, and from Paul’s and Steve’s escape from a railway smash in the first episode to the unmasking of the master-criminal, Dr. Belasco (mas-ter-criminals are always doctors or pro-

fessors, and never have ordinary names) in the eighth and last instalment, events move along at a fast clip. Belasco himself is one of Durbridge’s most sinister bad men. He doesn’t create crimehe ofganises it. Paul Temple and Steve, a Sunday night programme, is already being heard from 2ZB at 9.30 pm. It will start at 3ZB on July 25 (10.0 p.m.), 4ZB on August 8 (10.0 p-m.), 1ZB, August.22 (10.0 p.m.), and 2ZA on October 10 (9.30 p.m.). &