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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 November 1930, Page 8

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Jazz Week. T WISH to thank all correspondents who have supported me in the week of jazz. In the meantime, I wish to thank the R.B. Company for the extra popular nights, and dauce music promised. I also think the Maori Quartet Jast Tuesday night the best yet that has been broadcast (let’s have more of this). The increase of popular music promised shows that our seed has fallen on fruitful soil, if we further advocate this popular week it must come sooner or later. Mr. Bilis suggests that a simple twist of the dial will get us what we want, but we ‘can’t all get ABC, YANK, USA; a lot of us only get power noises, on the low wayve-lengths. So let’s keep plodding away for this object; we won’t get it now before we have paid our first 7/6 dole, but if we get it in December it will cheer us up for Christmas. I wonder if the Government will be popular

or classical:

Fifty-fifty

(Eltham) _

Church Broadeasts. ‘ARE the churches of this city supposed to be relayed in any orthodox way? If so, can you account for the non-inclusion of St. Andrew’s twice in the rounds this year. In the early part of the year this church service was missed, resulting in the fact that services from it were relayed as far apart as March 16 and June 17. Lately the church was again, neglected to broadcast the anniversary of Taranaki Street Methodist, resulting in the fact that the last relay was August 17. Quite a few people whom I have talked to are very (disappointed about this. They are all agreed that St. Andrew’s is one of the most enjoyable of services. If you have no control of the service relays, could you, by means of your paper, bring this to the notice of such persons who have. It is a great pity that a service which combines such bright singing with inspiring sermons from a preacher whose unique voice relays with such clarity, should be missed thus often from the circuit.-

Regular Reader

(Wellington).

[The church broadcasts are arranged by rota, according to the numbers of the population belonging to each church. Ten Presbyterian broadcasts

are allowed from Wellington, and these must be divided between St. John’s and St. Andrew’s. Last month St. John’s missed through unavoidable circum-stances.-Kd. ] OUR occasional correspondent "Senex," writes as follows from the Lower Hutt:-"All 2¥A listeners have _ & very soft spot in their heart for our ‘Mr. Announcer,’ and we resent anything that causes him pain, or drives from his voice that cheerful optimistic _ cadence which is our delight. But for a long while past a note of sadness is nightly heard when he is distributing over the air, those cryptogrammie and cabalistic words, symbols and figures from all places in the Southern . Hemisphere, which are supposed to tell

us what the weather was, is, and is going to be, in every direction. Always does he open with a cheery cadence in his voice, but no sooner has he got a fair start than invariably he meets a check, and, referring to Norfolk Island, his cheerfulness: vanishes, and in dolorous tones he has to announce ‘no temperature given." Though the words are absent, we all feel that he fain would say ‘Alack and alas. We don’t like this at all, for it is not until he is revelling among the DQZJ’s of Puysegur Point, or ‘Arrkaroa’ lighthouse, that our trusty and well-beloved friend regains his normal cheerfulness. What hurts our ‘Mr. Announcer’ hurts us, and lots of us would be willing to join in a ‘taurpaulin muster’ to buy a thermometer for Norfolk Island, and suggest when this is supplied that the Head Serang of the Weather Department should insist that full information should be daily supplied. Then once more would the news of the degree of heat or cold at this lovely island (of early evil reputation) ring out boldly, cheerfully, and even triumphantly over the evening air, and our ‘Mr. Announcer’ be happy once more. What about the ‘Radio Record’ heading the list? It would soon result in ‘full house-standing room only.’ "