THURSDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 24, 24 December 1931, Page 19

THURSDAY

Notes from 1YA (TROTTING results will again be broadeast from noon. This is the iast night 1YA will broadcast a programme under the present regime. and being New Year’s Eve, cheeriness and brightness will reign. (THE popular 1YA Broadcasting Choir and Salon Orchestra will give a programme of old and new melodies, combined with community singing, while "Lee Fore Brace" will talk on "An Hogmanay at Sea." Dance reeords will be interspersed during the evening, while many friends of the company will be present to join in the gaiety. Just before midnight we shall broadcast a description of the festivities which take place near the Ferry Building and then "Auld Lang Syne." 2YA Topics 1 At 8 p.m. there will’ be a presenta- } tion from the studio of a New Year; Eve party tendered to the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Limited, At 11 p.m. a relay of the Watch Night Service from St. Andrew’s Church will be broadcast, the preacher will be the Rev. W. Bullock. At midnight the New Year celebrations will be relayed from Post Office Square, which will be followed by a community sing from the studio of "Auld Lang Syne." From 3YA ‘FOLLOWING the weekly interna- ' tional programme at 8 p.m., which will include a talk by Dr. J. Hight, rector of Canterbury College, on "An International Retrospect and Outlook," there will be an impromptu programme

by well-known 8YA artists from 10 p.m. to 11,48 p.m. A relay description of New Year’s ive celebrations in Cathedral Square will extend until midnight, when the old year will be rung out and the 1932 rung in. Items from 4YA S becomes the capital of our Scottish province, Dunedin will feature a Scottish New Year programme. ‘The presence of the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band giving the required atmosphere. A fine range of vocal items will be contributed. At 9 o’clock "The Hogmanay Party Entertains" will be presented, the dancer in this feature being May Wilson. A dance session commences at 10 p.m. and from 11.30 p.m. till midnight a relay description of the New Year’s Eve festivities around Dunedin xchange will see the end of 1931 and the dawn of what all hope will be a better year.