"Bubbles" Of Yesterday and To-day

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 16 November 1934, Page 20

"Bubbles" Of Yesterday and To-day

Popular Radio Speaker to Discuss the "South Sea Bubble" and Other Financial Booms From. 1YA-Another Series of Talks by German Yachtsman-Big Gathering to be Held by "Friendly Road."

HE famous South Sea Bubble originated by Harley, Earl of Oxford, in 1711, in England, with the ideaof restoring public credit and providins for the extinction of the floating national debt, which resulted in 2 mania of, gambling seizing the nation and the floating of preposterous companies, and ended in the inglorious bursting of the "bubble," ‘will be deseribed by Mr. Julius Hogben from 1YA at 9.2 on Wednesday night next. Myx. Hogben, one of the finest speakers before the. microphone in the Dominion, who gave.a fine series of talks from this station during the winter, has been engaged to do a further series entitled "South Sea. and Other Bubbles." In his talks he will describe many of the booms which have occurred from the South Sea Scheme up to the present time HH master of the German = yacht . with the Maori name Te Repunga, Captain George D. Dibbern, is to return to Auckland next week, after a visit to friends in Napier,.to prepare his small but sturdy vessel for the big Tasman yacht race,’ which comes off

shortly. This experienced and adventurous segfarer, who earlier in the year sailed out from Kiel (Germany) to Auckland, has, again been engaged by the Broadcasting Board to deliver a series of talks from 1YA, entitled "The Sea Calls." Captain Dibbern’s first talk is to be given from this station at 92 p.m. on Friday, November

23. ‘Those who heard his thrilling talks delivered from. 1YA in April last, shortly after his arrival from Germany, are eagerly looking forward to the new series-by such a great navigator and entertaining and = cultured speaker. Captain Dibbern is confident

that he will win the yacht race from Auckland to Melbourne. A MONSTER gathering to be held in the Town Hall on December 2, has been planned by the Friendly Road te celebrate its second anniversary. A special concert programme in keeping with the importance of the event is being drawn up, and the proceedings wil be broadcast. by 1ZB, ACCORDING to several Auckland radio dealers there has been a big increase in the demand for higher priced radia sets and dual wave machines are selling freely here at present. The sales of lower-priced sets have dropped off rapidly during the last three months, buyers. evidently realising that quality lines. are worta the price. A number of dealers who have been holding big stocks are now replacing them, so great has been the demand, A NEW B.B.C, recording of the big Aldershot Military Tattoo recentiy held on the Rushmoore Arena has just been received at 1YA from England, This will be heard from 1YA for the first time on Thursday. next. ARGARDT MACPHERSON, the experienced journalist and radio speaker, who is one of the featured writers in the "Radio Record Annual," is in Auckland at present. She will be heard from 1YA at 9.2 next Thursday night, when she is to deliver a talk on "New Zealanders in Fleet Street." "THE last of the talks arranged by the Auckland "Workers’ Educational Association for 1984 was given from 1YA_ by Dr. BD. P. Neale, seeretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, who concluded his series on "Town Planning." The association's new term wi!l commence about the end of February of next year, when, new’ speakers will take their places at the microphone, HE sporting interests of listeners were well served by the Broadcasting Board last week, when descriptions of the three biggest turf events in Australia and New Zealand-the Centenary Melbourne Cup, the New Zeualand Cup, and the New Zealand Trotting Cup-were broadcast, The shortwave broadcast from Melbourne was picked up on the P. and T. Department's set housed at Brown’s Bay, and put over from 1YA by land line, which hat to come under the Waitemata Harbour to the city. Conditions were excellent and listeners could plainly hear the cheering of the crowd when the topweight, Peter Pan, flashed past the post to win easily. This ‘year the New Zea~ land Cup and the New Zealand Trotting Cup were described only from 2YA° and 8YA, the board! believing that mosz people in the North Island ean easily receive the Wellington station in daya Fo] . .