Broadcast Jottings

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 2, 24 July 1931, Page 5

Broadcast Jottings

GTATION 8YA will begin the broadeasting of the international programmes on Thursday, July 30. The series, which is now running at 1YA and 4YA, is proving extremely popular and is certain to be greatly enjoyed by 3YA listeners. The lecturer for the evening will be Dr. P. Stanley Foster, chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Rotary Club. He will speak on "Personal Observations in Other Countries." HE Rey. L. B. Fletcher, who was the , first minister in New Zealand to eonduct a service before the microPhone and who has been an enthusiastic broadcaster ever since, returned (% the Dominion last week after a very successful evangelical mission in the Old Land. The Rev. Fletcher is one of the most popular preachers ‘‘on the air" and he is equally popular as a radio uncle-‘Unecle Leo." Next Sunday, Mr. Fletcher’s service in the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland, will be broadcast by AYA, SINCE 1865, which ushered in the days of gold on the West Coast, mo part of New Zealand has had a more interesting history. This is to be told from 8YA in a series of talks under the title of "The Story of the Golden Coust." The lecturer will be Mr. BE. Iveagh Lord, formerly of the West Coast and now of Christchurch. He is steeped in his subject, wields a facile pen, and is an excellent speaker.

RS Cee 6 7 ee ee Ee eu Nl The first talk will be broadcast on Sunday, August 2. ON a date yet to be definitely fixed, Dr. Belshaw, Professor of : Economics at the Auckland University, will discuss the Niemeyer Report. His address is to be given in the University

College Hall and will be broadcast by 1YA. OLLOWING on the relay of pro- @ grammes to Palmerston North, Masterton, Hamilton and Invercargill, the Broadcasting Company has received a request that a 2YA programme

should be relayed weekly to Napier and broadcast by Mr. T. B. Hansen’s station there. The Broadcasting Company is agreeable, provided that the necessary relay line is available. A LADY is to act as judge in & debate on the question "That the bachelor is happier than the married man." This debate is to be broadcast by 83YA on Wednesday, July 29, between teams representing the W.H.A. (Messrs. A. Dingwall and A. Robson) and the Canterbury College Dialectic Society (Messrs. A. G. A, Baigent and G. F. Jones). Mrs. T. B. Taylor will be the adjudicator. OR some weeks past listener# throughout the Dominion have been receiving an illustrated brochure describing the New Zealand broadcasting service. This is a very interesting souvenir and all listeners should see that they get one. According to ane nouncements made from the YA sta tions, the Broadcasting Company ine vites all who have not, for one reason or another, received a copy, to write for one to the General Manager, Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z., Litto P.O. Box 1079, Christchurch. TITEL