BROTHER BILL'S LIMERICKS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 14, 21 October 1927, Page 15

BROTHER BILL'S LIMERICKS

"Rig Brother Bill" at 4YA, Dunedin, has recently been conducting a "Limerick Competition,’ and it is surprising the enormous interest it has created amongst both young listeners and old. The postman, who delivers bundles of letters in connection with the competition three times daily to 4YA, has decided that "Big Brother Bill’ is a very, popular chap. One night recently, when the time limit of the competition had expired, "Big Brother Bill" read "over the air’? every limerick which had been received, and gave each one a number. He asked his listeners to allot points in order of merit to the three they considered best. ‘The young listeners’ decisions rolled in thick and fast. On Friday night, October 14, during the Children’s Session, "Big Brother Pill’? announced the winner, who will receive a prize of 5s. : It is the intention of "Big Brother Bill" to entertain the children in an instructive way, and he possesses a most original style in this matter. In addition to this, each month there will be a competition and a prize for the winner. The October competition will no doubt create a lot of interest and amusement, and it is a laughing competition. Details of this will be announced later,’ BETTY WRATHER, 109 Norfolk Street, St. Clair, Dunedin, THE WINNING EFFORT. Said the boy who lived on the hill, To his noisy young brother named Phil, Dowt make such a din, For I’m listening in, | dnd it’s time to get Big Brother Bill,