The Melbourne Cup, 1956

New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 9

The Melbourne Cup, 1956

ON Tuesday, November 6, the 1956 Melbourne Cup will be run at Flemington. Listeners will be able to hear a preview of the race at 9.32 p.m. on. Monday, November 5, from the ZBs, 1XH, 2ZA and 4ZA, and the broadcasting of the race by the Commercial stations on the actual day will be at 5.0 p.m. approximately. The previewer race commentator will be the same as last year-Bill Collins, of the Mel-

bourne station 3DB. Radio Australia’s commentary on the race will be broadcast in a link of YA and YZ stations at 6.50 p.m. the same day, the commentator in this broadcast being the ABC commentator Joe Brown. Earlier in the afternoon of Tuesday, November 6, the 1956 New Zealand Trotting Cup will be broadcast by YA and YZ stations in link from Addington.

Race time last year was 2.22 p.m., and listeners could take this. time as an approximate guide. The Cup will be rebroadcast, however, in the Main National Stations link at 6.50 p.m. Apart from racing, another important sporting event taking place in the coming programme week is the New Zealand Women’s Cricket Tournament. | Summaries giving details of play in this tournament will be’ broadcast from YAs and YZs at 6.50 p.m. on Friday, November 9, and 7.0 p.m. on Saturday, November 10.

| Mangaia, but on his return to Rarotonga saw his opportunity for a little adventure strictly to his liking, Inside the coral reef at Avatiu lay the 48-foot ketch White Hart, Bruce met the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Reeves, and they readily agreed that he join their three-year-old son Michael as crew.. Bruce had sailed eighteen-foot-ers and Idle Alongs at Christchurch and Auckland since he was a child, so although he had had no previous ocean sailing he was not without experience in the handling of small boats. Designed by Alden for salmon fishing on the coast of British Columbia, the White Hart had already brought the Reeves family about 8000 miles across the Pacific from Victoria. Although she is equipped with an echo sounder, automatic pilot and a powerful auxiilary engine, she was under: sail for most of the passage to New Zealand. With Bruce assisting as watch-keeper and deckhand, the White Hart visited»Pago a and Apia, and ,cruised through the islands of the Lau group. During the passage they spoke to two other vessels -a 10,000-ton Japanese mother ship with its fleet of tuna boats; and a fellow Canadian, Brigadier Miles Smeeton’s 40-foot yawl Tzu Hanga. Both the White Hart and Tzu Hanga hove to and celebrated this mid-ocean meeting of two yachts that had left Canada within a foftnight of one another twelve months before. ; Bruce Broadhead ‘spent only a week in Auckland editing his recordings and compiling his programmes, Then he left for the Olympic Games at Melbourne, Bruce was a little vague about his travel itinerary «rer Melbourne. But’ briefly it. wil! cake in other parts +f Australia, and later North America and Europe. *