Wild Doings at Greymouth

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 653, 11 January 1952, Page 17

Wild Doings at Greymouth

REYMOUTH, the straggling town on the estuary of the Grey River, has declined in recent years. Once it was a port of some importance; now most of its. trade has moved elsewhere and it has settled down to a-quiet, slowly decaying, old age. There’s still a certain amount of life there, though, even if it’s not the sort of life the more respectable residents would like to know about. Strange things happen; there are rumours of drug-running, and once somebody dies accidentally-on-purpose. Even the pleasant young man who is trying to revive his father’s shipbuilding business at Forrester’s Wharf gets himself tied up in something that’s bigger and uglier than he thinks... . West Coasters (who, if they have read thus far are probably sharpening knives on their boots) will, it is hoped, be mollified to learn that any suggestion of a resemblante between Westland’s metropolis and the seaport which is the scene of the new ZB serial Forrester’s Wharf is completely unintentional. But if they have had their curiosity aroused they can satisfy it by listening to the new show, which is to begin at 4ZB on January 16 at 8.45 p.m. To Be Continued . ECAUSE of the popularity of the ZB programme They Visited New Zealand, which is broadcast at 8.30 p.m.

every Saturday from the four ZB stations, thirteen further episodes have been added to the series. As with the earlier instalments, these will deal with the concerts given by world-famous artists who. have toured this country over the past sixty or seventy years. Among the new episodes are to be programmes of recordings by Dame Nellie Melba, who visited the Dominion in 1903 and 1910, Paderewski, Richard Crooks, the Sheffield Choir, and Jascha Heifetz. The new series will begin on January 19. Contest for Film Addicts STARTING with the tenth edition of Book Shop, which is being heard in the current fortnight from 1YA, 2YA, 3YA, 4YC, IYZ, 2YZ and 3YZ, the organisers plan to hold every now and then a competition of a kind that will be familiar to readers of the New Statesman and Nation and other overseas weeklies. A fee of half a guinea will be paid for any entry used or quoted on the programme announcing and discussing the results. In the first competition, for which entries must be at Book Shop, 3YA, Christchurch, by January 31, competitors are asked to put themselves in the place of a film advertisement writer preparing a write-up of not more than 150 words about a film of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. "Quite recently we've seen descriptions of Kim and Soldiers Three that would make Kipling fairly spin in his grave,’ says an announcement about the competition, "and when they wrote up the Kon-Tiki film the suggestion was that Heyerdahl and his raftmates left South America for

Polynesia with the chief motive of sampling the charms of the hula girls." After that hint, it’s pretty clear that there’ll be no hyperbole barred (within the usual limits, of course) in this competition at least. All entrants must send their name and address and (if they want to be anonymous) a pseudonym,