News and Notes from the North

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

News and Notes from the North

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; ON December 29 the band from the $8 Rangitiki will play from 1YA. On the same evening four Wellington artists will appear at the Auckland station, these being Mr. 8. HB. Rodger, Miss L. Nicholas, Mr. V. Hvans, and Mrs, 8. Durican, Me. RALPH BSKRIGH, an. Auckland tenor who has been in Australia for three years, has now returned to.New Zealand and will sing from 1YA on December 28. Miss Phyllis Gribben, another well-known Auckland singer who has been away, is also returning and will be heard 1YA on December 31.. T E new programme schedule which ; eame into force at ali the YA stations on December 1 has been very well received in Auckland. It is generally admitted to be a welcome improvement upon the former arrangements, and the 1YA programmes are definitely brighter when reviewed by the week. HE new orchestral octet at 1YA which is conducted by Mr. Harold Baxter has proved a great success, and has received some very high compliments from listeners and from. fellow musicians. Their balance and intonation are particularly fine, and one Auckland listener who is a-recog-nised musical authority says that their. playing is the most artistic he has heard. ‘OLIDAYS for some people usually mean hard work for others, and Christmas with its holidays for most is one of the busiest times of the year in the broadcasting studio. Such is certainly to be the case at 1YA this Christmas. During the holiday week the station will be onthe air from noon. and there will be no silent day. On Christmas Eve the station will not close down till midnight, . VERY well-known 1YA entertainer, Mr. T. T. Garland, is giving his last item from the station this week. Mr. Garland, who is better known to the children as "Uncle Tom," will be greatly missed from the ranks of the studio uncles, for he has _ attained a great popularity with the ehildren. He has also been a fairly regular artist for the grown-ups,. his forte being humorous items. As yet no. successor has been appointed to the "uncleship" vacated by Mr. Garlan¢ A NEW mixed quartet known as the Orpheus Quartet and comprised of four members of the 1YA Choir is to make its first appearance from 1YA‘on January 14. The members, all well-known singers, are Miss Chrissie Foster, soprano; Miss Cathleen Mulqueen, contralto; Mr. H. 8. Poffley, tenor; and Mr. B. M. Newling, baritone. Miss Mulqueen and Mr. Poffley were among the soloists in the 1YA Choir’s presentation of "St. John’s Bve" on December 9, which was one of the outstanding performances heard from the Auckland station during the month or two. Listeners to the orthern station are certainly most fortunate in having a choir such as tk's singing regularly before the microphone, for their work maintains a con-