FRIDAY

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

FRIDAY

Auckland Topics When the station goes on the air at 12 noon to-day it will be under

the control of the Broadcasting Corporation, for the company which has controlled its destinies for five years will have ceased to exist, During the afternoon the results of the racing club’s meeting and a resume of the Plunket Shield cricket match, Otago y. Auckland, at Eden Park, will be broadcast. A bright programme has been arranged for the evening. Featured will be many novelty items, including Wally Harrison and his Melody Boys, Eric Waters in piano sketches, and Peter Black in songs at the piano. A whistling and vocal duo by the PurdyBlack duo will be something out of the ordinary and should be highly entertaining. Reg Morgan and his Orchestra will provide a programme of dance items until the station closes at 11 p.m. 2YA Features A§ usual, the station will be on the air at 10 a.m. with the morning sessions. These will include the usual talks. At 7.40 p.m. there will be broad- , east a talk which will be of more |

than passing interest. Mr. ©, S. Dempster, a representative of the New Zealand cricket team which recently. toured England, will tall on the first test match, in which,’ it will be remembered, the New Zealand team made a splendid showing and raised the prestige of New Zealand cricket in the eyes of the English public. Starring on the evening programme will be Maud Russell (Mrs. Albert Russell) and Frank Crowther, both of community singing fame, in piano and vocal duos, Both these artists are well known to listeners and very popular. That they will put on two or three good turns can be taken for granted. Another feature-this is really a star programme-will be the appearance of Frank ‘Tozer’s Hawaiians in selections of Mr.. Tozer’s arrangement. This group of performers is well known as a vaudeville combination in Australia, and has been starred in many important shows, A paragraph about them appears in another part of the paper. Kathleen Ferris, soprano, has been heard from 2YA many times, and she has never failed to please. Her colourful voice has. brought endless pleasure to her large audiences and her appearances at the Sunday band concerts have been very popular, Instrumental music will be provided by the 2YA Orchestrina. Christchurch Notes ‘ROM 12 noon the station will be ou the air to broadcast the results of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club races at Addington. The evening’s programme will be of the vaudeville type featuring a Highland pipe band under Major J. A. Patterson. Two Rascals will be heard in several light items, 4YA Features [THE concert on New Year’s Eve : will comprise a bright two hours im song and chorus arranged by Alfred Walmsley, assisted by instrumental sextet under the leadership of A. H. Petit.