Topical Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 28, 24 January 1930, Page 8

Topical Notes

FRIEND informs "Switch", that during the recent holidays he was. the guest’ in a+ Maori home in ‘the Manawatu, in which a first-class receiving set was installed. The members of the family took the greatest interest in every session of 2YA, which is their favourite station, and, unlike many pakeha listeners, they found entertainment and interest in-every type of item,. not forgetting the. weather forecast -and report. Grand opera was as popular as jazz. They were strong advocates for an increased day service from 2YA. A PLEA for the repetition of records of "old time" popular songs from 2YA, Wellington, has reached "Switch." The listener urges that they find favour with both the younger and older generations, mainly on account of ‘their tunefulness as compared with the lat-ter-day American jazz. The records purporting to be representations of music-hall entertainments in which the audience joins with the performers, he says, are the best of these "old time" records, although -the band performances of these items are quite good. (CABLES published in the New Zea_land Press a few weeks ago stated that Major Tryggve Gran, a Norwegian, denounced’ Commander Byrd for having, as the former alleged, exagger-. ated the difficulties of -reaching: the South Pole. The "Oakland Tribune" (California), recently to hand, states: "Commander :Richard E. Byrd was among: those to whom. Floyd Gibbons’s defence of the explorer’s recent: flight over the South Pole was available. Both short-wave transmitters connected with WGY Schenectady, associated with the National Broadcasting Company’s broadcast » Gibbons’s programme, in which he characterised Major Tryggve Gran, Norwegian, who criticised Byrd, as a mud slinger- and -violator of every principle of sportsmanship. . ;