Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 10, 20 September 1929, Page 12

Auckland Notes

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Listener

A PROGRAMME as unique as it was entertaining was presented from 1YA on Friday last. It was a New Zealand composers’ evening, and listeners were as delighted with the items of the choir, the trio, and the individual artists, as they were agreeably surprised at the quality and variety of wvorks of New Zealanders. We could thoroughly enjoy _moré.of the same type of evening. Such nights are an incentive to budding composers and writers, as well as an education to the whole community.

ISFORTUNE dogged 1YA, as it did most other antipodean stations in their attempt to rebroadcast the English account of the Schneider Cup race. . Quite a number of listeners sat up through the early hours in the hope of hearing the description of this world contest for air speed, and though they were disappointed, all to whom the writer has spoken were of, the opinion that the local station did all that was possible with the elements against it. TTHAT 1YA’S short-wave receiving equipment is quite capable of do-. ing its job, was.capably demonstrated on Saturday afternoon. A transmission from a Californian short-wave station was picked up and sent out perfectly. It was a most successful long-

distance re-broadecast, of which Auckland has of late been doing quite a lot. N° additional feature during the past two years has been more to the general public taste than .the dinner music session, now-in its second week. On all hands one hears. praise of the excellent transmission, and the splendidly arranged programmes, which are blended so that all types of listeners find them attractive. It is safe to assert that the dinner music session receives most favourable comment of all sections of our weekly programmes. TP HIS week'the radio exhibition is the _ main topic of conversation among both listeners and the trade. ‘The organising committee has got to work with a will, and the opening date of the big show has been fixed for October 30. The official ceremony will take place in the evening, and as it will be put on the air, the whole of the Dominion will be able to hear the speeches and the programme which will be presented. So keen have been the demands. for space, that all available accommodation provided on the floor of the big Town Hall has already been booked up by local and southern exhibitors. There will be at least twenty stalls, and ‘as the exhibition will be solely a radio one, there will be ample to draw the attendance of the large numbers now _evincing an enthusiasm for all matters appertaining to broadcasting. HE Committee have all the experience gained at the Wellington and Dunedin Exhibitions to guide them, with the result that they will be able to add features which these places now recommend in the light of that experience. It is understood that special accommodation will be provided for amateur transmitters, who are a very keen band in these parts, and their special display should be an incentive to the young to adopt amateur transmission as a pastime that has also prospects ahead. N the way of "stunts," next week's relay of a programme presented in Waitomo Caves will provide something quite unusual. Listeners who regularly discuss programmes-and what gathering of two or more does not?-hayve found the "Caves Concert," as it has been christened, quite a big theme for speculation. They are hoping for a demonstration of acoustic properties which will be a revelation.