New Year's Eve—Scots Wha' Hae

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 28 December 1934, Page 20

New Year's Eve—Scots Wha' Hae

Christchurch Station to Give the New Year a Real Scots’ Weleome-Mrs. Ross Brodie Sings From 8YA-Alan Brown, Community Sing Leader, Dogged by Misfortune-Mona Tracy on Westland.

VV ITH a Scotchman as station director it is not strange that 3YA intends to put over a really Scottish New Year's Eve. The Scottish Pipe Band have been engaged to play during the eight to nine session. During the ever: ing listeners will hear Mr. Robert Allison, the well-known baritone, Mz. W. B Lambert, humourist, and Sefton Daiy, with pianoforte novelties, In the reserved session at nine o’clock, My. Leicester Webb will conclude the year's talks on world’s affairs with a genera! outline of "The World in 1934," and as Mr. Webb’s talks have been followed with very keen interest by listeners. Mr. Webb can be assured of a good iuudienee for his final talk in 1984. Me ALAN BROWN’S father died suddenly last month just three days after our popular community sing leader had been discharged from Lewisham Hospital following an operation. Sinee then Mv. Brown’s mother has been seriously il), and this worry, combined with his legal duties and convalescence, has made Mr. Brown look in need of a holiday. MES. ROSS BRODIE'S fine contralto voice was heard to great advantage in her numbers from 8YA_ last Tuesday night, and she is in great demand as a soloist at the different YA stations, Mrs. Ross Brodie hails from Rangitata, South Canterbury, and was president of the Temuka Plunket Society for six. years, and a very interested member of the | Rangitata

Women’s Institute, and one of the leading lights in the South Canterbury Drama League. Mrs. Ross Brodie, together with Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Unwin, were the three Orari readers who won the South Canterbury festival

last year, and appeared in the nationni finals in Wellington. This year they were the runners-up for the same festival in Timaru with the presentation of "Innocent and Anabel." Besides her public duties Mrs, Ross Brodie is very interested in any matter connected with stage craft, is young and

vivacious, and has a particularly sweet and well-controlled voice. Mona TRACY is certainly popular on theair, and last week’s talk from 3YA was entitled, "Hokitika-Then and Now." It is to be hoped that West Coasters were listening-in, for her intimate details-of the various spots of. interest in Hokitika in the old days were. worth listening to. The days when the notorious Burgess and Kelly Gang was terrorising the Coast, the description of the inn where they made their headquarters, the glorious beaca. the Aorangi Peak, the inn garden, and the ‘old wharf, where, as many as 50 ships lay anchored at one time, were all mentioned. Then on to Bruce Bay, the "south of southernmost Westland," and the goldfields juring and after 1865. Her descriptisn of the golden (lay in, Hokitika, and the~ profitable hours spent in the quaint old library containing the records of human eldeavour and tragedy, were fine. Mona Tracy’s talk was an interesting statement of facts, and proved that Hokitika is just as interesting to-day an‘ still as heloved by all West Coasters iis was New Zealand’s Eldorado of the ’sixties. "THE peal of the Christchurch Cathe- \ . drval bells wag an. unusual note is the day’s broadcasts on two occasions Just week, and listeners may be interested to know that these peals were manipulated by the visiting English bellringers. "THOSE interested in cricket, will be happy to learn that 3YA_ wil hbroadeast progress reports of the Weilington v. Canterbury match, with a review of the day’s play in the evening. The Canterbury Park Trotting Clnb meeting on New Yeur’s Day, and the day following, will also be broadcast by the same station. WITH the New Year, all kinds of good resolutions are made, and 8YA starts off well by presenting, on January 1, those two world-famous artists, Madame Goossens-Viceroy and , Mr. Raymond Beatty. This start is a good omen, and iisteners are lookiug forward to the arrival of the famons Belgian soprano and Australian bassocantante. Following their recital on the ist, these artists will again ve heard the following Friday in a further set of songs from their repertoire.