Hat Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 23, 14 December 1934, Page 5

Hat Shots

N unusual sight was a herd of cows outside the Wellington Club the other eyeniug. HE latest story is that Mussolini’s an Irishman, Richard Murphy by name. If you're willing to bite, the answer’s Dick Tater. NEw YORK’S Radio City has beeu opeued a year, during which time one aud ua quarter million people haye viewed the studios. feree's" voting competiYion for and against the relicensing of bookmakers is creating a tremendous amount of interest. "New Zealaud leLTHOUGH on holiday, Dr. James Moffatt, the Biblieal authority, was called | upon to address four different: gatherings in Dunedin in one day. {" is estimated that at least 30,000 people watched the Grenadier Guards Band march up Queen Street, Auck- », land, from the Wanganella the \ other day. OVERSEAS visitors are invariably amused at the haphazard way New Zealandergs cross busy city intersections, paying no attention to the traffic lights. OTAGO beekeepers report that supplies of honey are being obtained much earlier this year, but heavy rain is needed to freshen the clover before the season proper begins. THE bunting that has so far been put up in Wellington jin honour of the Duke’s visit can scarcely be described as magnificent. The general opinion seems to be better none at all than a tawdry display. : ,. WELL-KNOWN Auckland ¥* M.P,, asked by the "Radio Record" if he was the author of the anonymous Dunedin}: slum story, "Children of the Poor," replied: "I’m not saying I am, and I’m not saying I’m not." ‘ STORY is being told in ‘Auckland that, had a very high personage not interested himself, no civic reception would have been given the. Grenadier Guards Band, It is also rumoured that the band would have cancelled its New Zealand tour and returned: immediately to England if this civic honour had not been extended.

Hat Shots LARGE glaciarium for real ice-skating is to be built in Christchurch, and is to be ready about Apvil. | WELL-KNOWN Auckland | store, advertising its Christmas goods last week, converted its name to "Million Choices." O much civil business has accumulated in the Auckland Supreme Court that the services of two additional judges had to be utilised this week. ; MBs. SKILLING, wife of the navigator on Ulm’s ill-fated Pacifie flight, is well known in Gisborne. Her mother left Auckland for Sydney last week to comfort her. M43 OR GHORGH MILLER, musical director of the Grenadier Guards, didn’t like the Auekland hotel he was booked to stay at, and went over to the Northern Club. ‘| BELIDVE you were beaten this afternoon, Mr. Sarazen," the American champion golfer was told during an interview at 4YA, to which he naively replied: ‘"You’re telling me?"

QGEEN in the Station Hotei lounge, Auckland, the other night: A girl in a black evening frock, very "ceutaway" sandals, and displaying brilliantly scarlet toe and finger nails. VERY YA station was jbesieged with telephone’ ealls last week about Ulm, Upon being told that a report would be put on the air as soon as one arrived, an inquirer asked, "When will that be?" WHEN she was told that the new 1YA transmitting plant was out at Henderson, one dear old soul in Auckland remarked that it would be a long way for the performers to go on _ wet nights. SALVATIONISTS gathered — at all wayside stations to welcome the new Army leader, Lieut.-Commissioner F, H, Adams, who travelled by the Limited from Auckland to Wellington last. Thursday night. : HEN the finishing touches were being put to a window display of valuable crystal in the D.I.C., Christehureh, the other day. a high shelf fell. smashing almost everything, including the window itself.