NOTES and NEWS from the NORTH

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 18, 14 November 1930, Page 4

NOTES and NEWS from the NORTH

FoR several months negotiations have been proceeding between the | 1YA programme organiser and the bands on several overseas steamers which call at Auckland regularly, but something has always cropped up to prevent the fixing of a date for the Visiting musicians to play over the air. , However, a date has now been arranged for the band of the s.s. Rangitiki to appear from 1YA, and listeners will hear them on December 29. HH relay of the Melbourne Cup ~ given by 1YA was most successful "and was greatly appreciated by a large number of listeners. The des¢ription was clear, and the cheering and shouting at the finish made it quite realistic. "Some of the Auckland radio dealers ‘placed loudspeakers in their shop entrances and attracted large audiences. ‘Listeners with short-wave recéivers "were able to pick up the broadcast "from Australia direct. N continuation of the series of. full evening programmes presented from 1YA by leading local teachers and their pupils will be one given by Dr. Phillips and his pupils on December 16, Dr. Phillips is president of the Auckland Society of Musicians, and is one of the best-known figures in local musical circles. With the approach of summer and its attendant holidays and camp"ing expeditions one would expect the

sale of portable radio sets to increase, and "Call Up" has recently asked a number of Auckland dealers what the general attitude of set buyers is to the portable. It appears that this type of set has never attained much popularity in this part of the world, and inquiries for them are few and far between. The chief reason advanced for this is that the portable usually has a fairly limited range. In spite of this, however, one dealer claims to have heard 2YA in Auckland in daylight with a portable. "Call Up" considers that the short range . excuse is insufficient te. explain the unpopularity of the. portable. If ever there was a _ district where such a set should be appreciated it is round Auckland., With such an abundance of beaches, camping places and yacht and. launch havens one would expect the little portable to be widely used during the summer holidays. , ALTHOUGH the contract with the City Council for the. relaying of the Municipal Band and . Municipal

Choir has now been definitely rehewed, neither will be heard over the air before the first week in December, as all the programmes from’ the local station have already been arranged up ‘till that time. SOMETHING extra special is to be given by the 1YA Broadcasting Choir on December 9. This is the old ™

English idyll poem, "St. John’s Hve," by. Joseph. Bennett, set to music by

— Frederic Cowen. This is a very beautiful work, and is most appropriate to the season. The full choir. of forty _- voices under the direction of Mr. Lé@ Barnes will be heard, the soloists be-| ing Miss Gwladys Payne, soprano, Miss’ Cathleen Mulqueen, contralto, Mr. 8. H. Poffley, tenor, and Mr, L. Barnes, baritone. The organist will be Mr. Hric Waters, and Mr. Cyril Towsey will be at the piano. Although this poem is well known it has never before been heard over the air in New Zealand, and it is" ‘twenty years since it was performed in Auckland. [t has been arranged for the Auck- _ land Society of Musicians to give a series of concerts from 1YA next year, and some most enjoyable musie¢ can be confidently expected. \ Anti-Piracy Drive put down "radio piracy" the Indian Radio Corporation, of College Street, Calcutta, offers 20 crystal sets of its own manufacture each month to listeners who give information leading .to the detection of unlicensed sets. The champion sleuth for the month will receive a special prize of a three-valve set, mains or battery driven, complete with loudspeaker

ONE ld _to. be Broadcast. SPE EEE EES NHE official opening of the new railway station at Auckland will take place on Monday; November 24, at 2 p.m. The Minister of Railways, the Hon, W. A. Veitch, will speak, and the proceedings will be broadcast by 1YA. PP LPP PPP PPD PD ODO ate i os i i SEI PPI S a ed POUeUTe ven ~S III INNES, Pd PRPDPPP PDD POD