SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Page 19

SATURDAY

1YA Items [HE results of the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting will be broadcast in the afternoon. At 7.40 p.m. from 1YA there will be a further talk, under the auspices of the N.Z. Amateur Radio Transmitters’ Association, by Mr. H. B. Arthur, who will speak on "The Uses of Long and Short Waves." The evening programme will comprise a relay of the Municipal Band concert to be given in the Auckland Town Hall. Gleanings from 2YA '['HE station will be on the air from noon to broadcast results of the Wellington Racing Olub’s meeting. The

2YA Salon Orchestra will provide 2 light programme, while the popular Melodie, Four will again entertain with quartets and solos. Berthold and Bent, guitar duo, will also be included on the programme in @ budget of up-to-date melodies. ° Jottings from 4YA ET us go back with 4YA, say, thirty years, and enjoy one of those great annual entertainments which set the whole countryside on the goldfields in a whirl for weeks before, and for days after-the annual concert and dance, to which the dancers rode on horseback from a radius of fifty miles around, and more, to enjoy until daylight those healthy and vigorous dances-the Caledonians, lancers, quadrilles, waltz, barn dance, Highland schottische, polka, cotillions, mazurka, etc.-dances ‘conducted by a master of ceremonies, the efficiency of whose art, as he directed the various figures in the mirthmaking sets, was the envy of the gay throng; an efficiency that was exceeded only by the pride of the sense of those who were so unfortunate as to be unable to attend, where songs of home and mother were sung, songs of sorrow and songs of love and laughter. . The evening’s concert broadcast will be a grand concert and dance relayed from the Somerset Lounge of the Savoy. 4¥A’s programme will be relayed to 3YA. —