Broadcast Jottings

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 51, 3 July 1931, Page 5

Broadcast Jottings

ON MONDAY, July 6, 1YA will be on '~ the air all the afternoon for the purpose of broadcasting the results of the Taumarunui Racing Club’s’ meeting, which is to be held at Dlerslie. On Sunday, August 30, the whole of the evening will be devoted by 3Y". to a relay from Ashburton-children’s song service, Methodist Church service and a concert by the Ashburton Silver Band. Both 3YA and 4YA will broadcast a concert from Waimate on Sunday, July 12. Listeners who recall the concert

relayed from this flourishing South Canterbury town last year will look forward to another excellent: prosramme. The town boasts a first-class band. Two programmes-on Sunday and Wednesday evenings-are now ~being relayed weekly from 2YA to 2ZD, Masterton. In this matter the Masterton Radio Listeners’ Club (of which Mr. G. ©. Holmes is the secretary) is acting in co-operation with the Broadcasting Company. Association football matches are being broadcast by 4YA, Dunedin. The announcer is Mr. W. Dow, of the "Otago Daily Times" literary staff. In Christchurch on July 27 the first of the Chatham Cup matches will be broadcast by 3YA. The narrator will be My. A. W. Huffadine, of the "Sun" literary staff. A Seottish singer, Mr. James Smith (bass), who is making his first appearance at 83YA on Friday, July 3, was a member of the Philharmonic Society, Aberdeen, and was on active service with the Gordon Highlanders. A debate is being arranged between the Christchurch W.B.A. and the .Dialectic Society of Canterbury College. It will take place in 38YA studio next month. Mr. Frank Milner. C.M.Q., rector of Waitaki High School, is to broadcast from 8YA on July 24. He is to speak on the youth movement in Germany. A reference of Elijah by the Christchurch Royal Choral Society is to be broadcast by 8YA on August 5. Toward the end of July, 3YA listeners can expect to hear "The uchess of Kensington" as: presented by the Christchurch Harmonic Society.

ety ts A CONCERT, to be given by the Otago Mounted Rifles Band, is to be broadcast by 4YA and 3YA on relay from Oamaru on Sunday, August 9. :