Big Dividend for Gordon Hutter

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 11 January 1935, Page 18

Big Dividend for Gordon Hutter

Sea Fox Brings Acceptable. Prize to Popular Auckland Sporting An-nouncer-Attractive New Year’s Eve Features Heard from 1YA -New Transmitter. Off the Air Last Sunday

ALURBADY widely known throughout the Dominion as one of the best ond most popular of sports announcers, hir. Gordon Hutter, of 1YA’s staff, is

«chieving fame as a racehorse owner. On the concluding: day’s racing of the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting at Bllerslie, Mr. Hutter enjoyed the privilege of telling the thousands who were listening to his description of the Goodwood Handicap, the initial event on the day’s card, how his own horses, Sea Fox, won by half a head from Lady Spy. He could have been pardoned had he got excited, but this he did not do, although the iorse was at long odds-seventh favourite-and paid a healthy double figure dividend, The stake was one of 300sovs.; too. At his own request, his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, broadcast a distinctly happy New Year message to the people of the Dominion from 1YA at 10 o’clock on New Xear’s Eve. It was really refreshing to listen to the brief but, beautifully chosen words by his Excellency, who possesses the ideal vuice for broadcasting. The Governor-General, who spoke from the new studio, was. accompanied by his aide, Lieutenant Elworthy. Afterwards Lord Bledisloe was conduct€d on a tour of inspection of the new building by the station director. Before leaving he expressed his: delight at what he saw and particularly mentioned the large main studio, as well as the handsome inlaid doors, made in Auckland from various and rare specimens of New Zealand woods. — A GOOD description of the New Year’s festivities in the city was broadcast by Mr. Gordon Hutter, who

was perched high up in. the- Ferry J3uilding with -a microphone, on New Year’s Eve. Mr. Hutter commenced at 21.45 p.m, and gave listeners a bright idea of the crowd which thronged the

‘ower end of Queen Street. The chimes of the ferry clock were put over the air at midnight, and the novel broadcast terminated.15 minutes later. ‘THE new 1YA transmitter gave trouble on Sunday night last and was off the air for over an hour; consequently the church service from the Salvation Army Citadel and the first part. of the concert programme was not given. Such breakdowns are bound to occur with a new set of equipment. In any case, the transmitter has not yet concluded its tests. THE Treaty of Versailles is a matter which is often referred to in the cables from Burope, but one which, not

OPPO PD DDD DDG LP PDD FPP FPGA LD GIDL LH FOP DAS SIS IIS everybody really understands. ‘There are many who often ask to.be enlightened on a particular point, especially in reference to the complaints made in ’ Germany of late regarding this famous treaty. Professor R. M. Algie, professor of law at Auckland University, is scheduled to speak on "The Treaty of Versailles and its international Legal Consequences" from 1YA at 9.2 p.m. on Thursday next. This talk hy such a well-known speaker and atuthority on the subject should be well worth listening to. QUITE a few Auckland listeners were frankly disappointed with the special B.B.C. recorded programme, "We Shall Remember Them," from 1YA on December 30, in memory of those who lost their lives in the Great War. This special feature should have been broadcast on Armis-. tice Day, November 11, but it did not arrive in time. Produced and compiled by Val Gielgud from the prose of such famous men as John Masefield,

Winston §S. Churchill, Stephen McKenna, and Lord Dunsany, and from the poems of Rupert Brooke, as well us many others, with good incidental

music, the B.B.C. presentation wis well done, but was far too grave. and solemn for such a bright period as the holiday time between. Christmas and New Year. HE Duke of Gloucester is evidently more at home riding a horse than when in front of the microphone. His Royal Highness was unmistakably nervous when replying to the welcome voiced by the Mayor .on behalf of Auckland citizens at the civie reception to the Royal visitor, broadcast on relay by 1YA, NE of the best programmes of its type ever broadcast from 1YA was the continuity programme-"On Wings of Song, An Hour with the Tenors," which was heard from the Auckland station last Monday night. Excellently varied recordings by many of the most popular of the world’s tenors, introduced by appropriate annotations, made this a programme to.be remembered. BA shanties are becoming more and more popular with listeners and those responsible for. the’ programme arrangements at all YA stations are often requested to provide: these rollicking songs of the sea. On Friday next at 9.20 p.m, 1YA is to present the special B.B.C. recorded feature, "A Shanty Party from the Gravesend Pilots." The singers, comprising the party, are ail men who have actually sung the shanties. on windjammers,

while all are also master mariners at Trinity House (London). To add interest to this broadcast, Mr. Cecil Madden, of the B.B.C., will explain the significance of each song.

New Zealander to Broadcast from Moscow Advice has been received by the "Radio Record" from Moscow that on January 20, at 4 p.m., and 11 p.m., New Zealand summertime, Mr. Max Riske, former Wellington schoolmaster who left last year to.study conditions in Russia, is to broadcast a talk from the-Moscow shortwave station. Mr. Riske is a very keen student of world affairs and world problems, and owners of all-wave sets should find plenty to interest them in his talk, which is to be broadcast on a wavelength of 25 metres.