News and Notes from the North

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 16, 30 October 1931, Page 4

News and Notes from the North

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AS all guid Scots know, November 30 is St. Andrew’s Day, and although this year it falls on a Monday there will be a good company of Scotch artists at 1YA for the evening broadcast. This will include the Auckland Pipe Band, the Twa Macs, Dilton Black, and Alice Bennetto in Scottish numbers, Beryl Barker, Kay Christie, and Reta McCullay singing solos and duets of Scottish folk songs, and in fact everything Scottish will be there except the haggis, so let all guid Scots gather round the loudspeaker on November 30, THE wrestling at the Town Hall on October 19 was not broadeast owing to a last-minute decision by the wrestling authorities not to permit it. It is indefinite at the moment as to whether permission will be granted for the broadcasting of any more matches this season. However, the season is just about to close. Although the match last week was an exciting one, it is stated that the attendance was poor. [THAT popular tenor, Denis Sheard, who has recently been singing from 2YA, is now back in Auckland, where he expects to stay for a month or two.

It is hoped to arrange for him to sing from 1¥A during his stay in Auckland, O’. Sunday, November 8, an interest* ing feature of the evening programme will be given by Mrs. Zoe Bart-ley-Baxter, who will recite the whole of Alfred Noyes’s poem "A Tale of Old Japan," This recital will be given with a2 special orchestral accompaniment arranged by Mr, Harold Baxter, conductor of the Salon Orchestra, ,