Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 20, 30 November 1934, Page 5

Hot Shots

7" . ARINA has recently beer given as a Christian name to two infants registered in Auckland. A NEW block of twelve flats is to be erected in Hereford Street, ‘Christchurch, near Latimer Square. | IGHTER entries are the order at all Otago shows this year, many exhibitors holding back for the Royal Show at Invercargill. AST week an Auckland woman lost her purse containing £100-practically her life savings-which she had drawn to assist a friend in need. A WELL-KNOWN Wellington girl nearly missed the Wanganella on its last trip to Sydney. She was hauled aboard sitting in the bight of a rope. R. E. C. HANDS, general manager of the Broadcasting Board, while in Dunedin last week, announced that work on the new site for the main station would start within the next few months. "VANISHING TEA" scheme is being organised by the affiliated clubs to the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association to raise funds for the rehabilitation of Wilding Park. AUCKLAND picture theatre managers competed. last Friday to secure the Tasman flyers, Whitehead and Nicholl, to appear on the stage and describe their thrilling flight. "Paddy" Malone, of the Civic, won. ’ FTER a 82-year-old cockatoo had unsuccessfully tried to hatch out half-a-dozen stones, its Auckland owner placed a bantam’s: egg under the would-be mother, and the result was a handsome, healthy chick. WELLINGTONIANS are still not quite sure what to make of the new colour scheme of concrete tiles in pastel shades of pink, pale blue, puce and pale green which are being used to face the new Colonial Mutual Insurance building. AUDIENCES at the first night of the screening of a film at the St. James Theatre, Wellington, recently. were puzzled by the lack of continuity and "jerkiness" of some of the scenes. Pxamination later showed that the ‘trailer’ had been :eut into}: middle of the film.

Hat Skets FTHER ‘thirty-five years, costumes are now optional in the swimming pools at Hanmer Springs. [THe New Zealand Alpine Club’s -tiew Godley Hut at the head of Lake Tekapo will be finished by Christmas. AFTER its renovation, the Christchurch Post Office iS now one of the bright spots in Cathedral Square. SoME who were self-made men five years ago are: having to do a lot of reconstruction work, UT it would seem that if should be easy to make an honest living-there’s so little competition. At least five luxury liners on tourist cruises are to arrive in Wellington during the summer. , HY old ery of "the neglected south’ has been raised again in Dunedin, as none of the luxury cruises are to include the South Island in their itinerary. "THE production of "A. Hundred Years Old" by the Wellington Repertory Theatre Society in Wellington last week drew crowded houses on each of the four nights of the season. a VER 200 petty officers ahd ratings from the cruisers Dunedin and Diomede started their two weeks’ early Christmas leave last week. The second watch is to go on holiday after the ships return from Wellington on December 99

A JUNIOR reporter on the "Auckland Star" got a great scoop last week when he ascended to the very top of 1YA’s 500ft. aerial nast at Henderson jin the ‘"Bos’n’s chair" with two workmen. His bright story was the talk of: the town. N Auckland society girl, recently. returned from abroad, was given a party in the lounge of a well-known hotel. Coming into the'lounge she collided with a waiter, both of them being sent sprawling on the carpet. The waiter was sacked. "QILENCE is golden," was the only reply interviewers could get from M. Armand Nihotte, Consul for Belgium, who returned to Wellington after a six months’ visit to Belgium last week, when he | was asked what were his impressions of politics on the. Continent. .