ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 11

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Music, Music, Music Sclaarhaet | (1) So far as Southland and Invercargill are concerned, your memory has fail you; but the files of the local newspapers will show you that provincial and city representations were long pressed. So in Hawke’s Bay, (2) Transferred to 4ZA, not lost. If the demand is there, 4YZ will try a classical request programme next year. (3) All relays? Local programmes (4YZ) exceeded four hours a day through September. (4) The local programme you_ specify was locally unsup ed. H. B. Alleway (Timaru): ormally, programme changes of that kind are planned and arranged in time for notice in e Listener; now and again, there is no time for prin notice, but the change has to be made. That was so when Walk a Crooked Mile was moved from its established placement. In such circumstances, notices are always broadcast, This change was announced at the end of the Walk a_ Crooked Mile presentation on September 27, three times on tember 28, and three times on September 30. |. Fed Up (Ashburton): (1) See answer to H. B, Alleway. (2) Plays are never "split up into about 10 episodes’; not clear. (3) But graphy = technical limitations being what they are, "one station in each island" is not enough for that purpose or any other. (Auckland): If surfaces are fit to play and interest remains, whether for current programme use or for such later revival as their period, style, topical association, composer, or performer may suggest, recordings are not destroyed. From those that would otherwise be discarded, many are reserved for institutions where they may still be useful. Your suggested alternative is impracticable. E.N.S, (Hastings): Thank you for the considerate postscript.