Seasonal Programmes for Women

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 15

Seasonal Programmes for Women

HE Wednesday morning Women’s Sessions from the four YA stations, which for most of this year have featured discussion programmes of one sort or another, will take a different form during the summer months. As most listeners will know the feature this week was a documentary abotit an education experiment being carried out near Auckland. Next Wednesday, December 9, the session will take a seasonal plunge, when listeners will be given on link from 4YA a programme of unusual holiday ideas. One Woman’s Christmas---a_ special Christmas, programme from Women’s Sessions-will be broadeast on link on Wednesday, December 16. This will be made up of short contributions from eight women-two from each YA station-telling how Christmas affects them and discussing their problems and preparations, Those to be heard in this programme will be a member of the’ National Orchestra, a woman in the toll room of the Wellington Telephone Exchange, a country postmistress, a country housewife, the matron of an orphanage, a woman in a grocery store, a min-

ister’s wife, and a doctor who is also a mother, During the Royal tour there will be no. special Wednesday programmes arranged ona national basis, but Women’s Sessions from. the four YA stations and 4YZ each day

will contain five-minute reports of special interest to women on the Royal tour. In February each YA station will broadcast on the first Wednesday a documentary-type feature which will circulate around the other stations during the month in the same way as discussions programmes broadcast during this year. From 1YA the programme will discuss various ways in which women can make money at home; the work of district and public health nurses will be described from 2YA; Station 3YA will broadcast a feature about the care of old people; and from 4YA listeners will hear an account of how immiog are settling down in New Zeaan