A Radio Christmas

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 23, 19 December 1930, Page 3

A Radio Christmas

"Extended Broadcasts and Feature. ue Programmes.

TPHIS is to be a Radio’ Christmas. Never, before have such. elab--. orate arrangements been made to provide extra services than this year. Already all stations are on the air at noon, and broadcast. a schedule that is meeting with general approval. Primarily these’ increased hours are to’ provide facilities for the radio

trades to demonstrate sets, but the general listening public are appreciating the extension. All this, of course, means extra time for the station staffs, but no one is complaining-it is Christmas time and allowances simply must be made. . On Christmas Eve all stations will be on the air till after midnight, the programmes being marked by gaiety and brightness. In the cases of 2YA and 3YA, Christmas Day will be ushered in to the broadcast of the midnight Mass from St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church, Wellington, The stations will be on the air continuously for over 12 hours. On Christmas Day the stations go on the air in the morning, in the afternoon, and again in the evening, with special broadcasts, including appropriate church services. Early morning children’s sessions, in which al] the "aunts" and "uncles" will. participate, will go on the air from all but SS ee TTT STITT

2YA, and at 10 a.m. 2YA_ will go with a special service conducted by Uncle George and assisted by Rev. W. R. Hibbert, who will give the address. During Christmas afternoon an _ unusual broadcast will take place when the Hon. A. J Stallworthy, Minister for Health, speaks from his home in Auck-

land and to officially open the radio installation in Porirua Mental Hospital. This broadcast will mark the culminating point of a very worthy effort that started a few months back and which has finally succeeded. At the other stations special afternoon and evening sessions will be broadcast. There will be no children’s or news sessions, but the evening programmes will start at 7 p.m. and will generally include a relay of a church service or other appropriate event. During the Christmas season there will be some splendid broadcasts, especially from 2YA, where Clement May, the noted elocutionist, will produce with full effects Dickens’s ‘Christmas Carol."" Another item of interest will be the tours of Jock Lockhart, the 3YA Scottish comedian, and J. F. Montague, of Auckland. With these notabilities in the programme there should be something good coming over the air in the holidays. SMS snes esa