UNCLE JACK RESIGNS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 48, 15 June 1928, Page 5

UNCLE JACK RESIGNS

LOSS TO 3YA CHILDREN "THERE will be thousands of children (and grown ups, too) who will regret to hear that Uncle Jack of 3YA has resigned. In advising the general manager that he would have to relinquish his radio duties after June 25, Uncle Jack (Mr. Ernest J. Bell, City Librarian) said in the course of his letter :- "Tor close upon two years I have earried out this work, and I now feel that someone else should carry on. «My work at the library is increasing rapidly, and there are many demands upon my time, "I may say that I shall relinquish the work with many regrets because I have enjoyed doing it very much indeed. I have made numbers. of friends throughout the Dominion, and should therefore be grateful if sometimes I could appear at. the microphone by arrangement, and tell the children a few stories."

(THOSE who have not been radio. uncles will not fully appreciate the wrench which accompanies a resignation of this nature, and such a wrench is particularly acute in the ease of Uncle Jack, who has served such a long spell before the microphone, and whose popularity has not waned. -This is testified to by the many thousands of letters which he has received. Stories have always been a feaure of Mr. Bell’s sessions, and ‘his young listeners will be glad to read of his offer to appear sometimes before the microphone and tell a few more tales. It is very gratifying to know that Mr, Bell’s services will not be completely lost to radio, in which he has played no smali role.