Mainly for Women

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 19

Mainly for Women

\/HEN the national and international significance of the Royal Tour of New Zealand have been covered by press and radio, there wili still remain an area of tour activity which is the special interest of women. In this, the social and sartorial field, the women’s department of the NZBS, both National and Commercial, will be especially active. Plans have been prepared, and for more than a month hardly a day will pass without women’s session listeners hearing descriptions from the feminine angle of Royal Tour events. The NZBS Commercial Division has scheduled Royal Tour Women’s Hour broadcasts on December 24, 29, 30 and 31, and on January 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 29. These will be heard from the four ZB stations, and will include descriptions of the scene and the frocks at the garden party at Auckland on December 23, and of the Royal visit to the races at Wellington. Observers in other centres will report on tour activities of feminine interest in their districts. As mentioned in The Listener last week, National Division stations which broadcast a daily Women’s Session will include in it five days a week through- out the tour a five-minute Royal Tour item-aunless, of course, other Royal Tour broadcasts are on the air at the time usually occupied by Women’s sessions. These items will be made up of recordings of parts of commentaries of tour events and special eye-witness accounts of interest to women. Like the Commercial Division broadcasts, they will be supplied by women from NZBS stations throughout the country.