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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 43, 9 May 1930, Page 6

QuUR Auckland correspondent writes: : The 1YA Station Choir’s second performance of the year, a miscellany of part songs, duets and solos, has been postponed for a week from the date previously announced and ‘will ‘now take place on June 4. Included among the items will be two compositions by Mr. J. L. ._Heath, of Auckland, which will be rendered by Mr. Len Barnes. . * " * lVfISS MILLICENT O’GRADY, a wellknown and popular 1YA artist and a member of that bright combination the Radio Scamps, has left Auckland for Christchurch. No doubt her sweet soprano voice will soon become known to listeners to 3YA. Her place in the Radio Scamys will not be easy to fill. ® * * DURING the last fortnight Mr. Eric Waters, station accompanist at 1YA, has been away on holiday. Mrs. Evelyn Prime took his place at the studio piano during his absence. * " os HITHER rehearsals nor actual broadcasts at the 1YA Studio are without their amusing interludes. At a recent rehearsal an artist having finished a song was requested by the conductor to begin again at the words "Come to my great heart." "Oh," said another artist, "I thought you had been. singing ‘Come to my great ‘aunt’?". The studio echoed to a spontaneous burst of laughter from the assembly, and it was several minutes before the rehearsall could continue. a = ™ ON May 22 an interesting aspect of the programme is that Mr. Reg Morgan’s orchestra will not only provide the music for the concert but also for. the whole of the following dance session. TalZing of dance music. a listener reminded me recently that much enjoyment used to be derived from the relays from the Dixieland and Click Clack cabarets, which were a feature of:local programmes a year

or two ago. If such relays could be arranged for this winter they would be. greatly appreciated. 1YA already provides us with good dance sessions of gramophone records, but the cabaret bands mentioned would be more likely to induce listeners to: hold "radio" dances. ; s LJ J A COMBINATION which is to be heard for the first time from 1YA on May 24 is Miller’s banjo-mandolin quartet, which is expected to be very well received. Another new artist to appear before the 1YA microphone on the same evening is Mr. G. C. Toljerton, a humourist, who will provide some novel "stunts." « * = N 1928 it was announced that after trying several sites the 1YA authorities had come to the conclusion that one at Orakei was the most suitable for a receiving station for distant transmissions which were to be rebroadcast. The site was on a Defence Reserve, but permission to use it for a-receiving station. was granted. "Call Up" has been asked if this site is still, or ever was, used as an official receiving station. As permission to erect a building on the site could not he obtained, the site has not beerf used. The receiving station that is used for reception of distant transmissions for. rebroadcasting is run by Mr. Cooper.’ of the Devonport Fire Station. at which quarters his set is installed. ‘