Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 11 January 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

THR five years in Christchurch, Miss Millicent O’Grady, well-known soprano at 3YA, is leaving New Zealand to settle abroad. H® Lord Chief Justice of HWngland’s wife, Lady Hewart, is a Wanganuj girl who received her nurse’s training in Christchurch. SYA has acquired the whole of the second floor of A. R. Harris, Co., Ltd., Christchureh, and is extending the offices. . "PHE veteran trotting driver, ¥. Holmes, of Christchureb, io drove Roi 1’Or to victory in the Auckland. Cup, returned by air to Christchurch after the fourth race on the last day of the meeting. ORD BLEDISLOEN, our popular Governor-General, made his’ last appearance at Ilerslie races on January 2, and on taking his departure was cheered to the echo by the thousands present. ° . HILE in Auckland last week the Duke of Gloucester attended the Regent Theatre to see "The Count of Monte Cristo." He also saw and heard himself speak in a news film of his arrival at Rotorua and Auckland. INCH the Duke went to Piha to bathe and surf, this pretty spot has ,been attended by large crowds. AIready an enterprising board-ing-house there advertises that Piha was patronised by the Duke. NV OST of the Wellington dairies resorted to putting "No-Bread" notices outside their shops on Wednesday to stem the streams of futile inquiries. Most of the stores had "sold out" on Monday afternoon. HEN the Grenadier "" Guards Band arrived in Dunedin at 7 a.m, on January 2, a large crowd assembied on the railway station platform to greet them, but the musicians were not to be seen. They remained ‘asléep in the carriages until after 8 o’clock. RELIMINARY inquiries suggest that a good season Will’ be enjoyed in Wellington by the J.C, Williamson Company, which is to open with "Ten Minute Alibi" on Saturday week. Dr. Merton Hodge’s "Wind and the Rain," is also in the company’s. 'repertoire,

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HE visiting British Amuzateur golf team considers Shirley the best golf course in New Zea'land. WO more volumes of oneact plays by New Zealand authors will appear on the market within the next few months. (FECEMBER, 1934, was the driest month ever known in Canterbury, the rain on New Year’s Day ending a forty-seven day drought. TPHAT picturesqte little spot in Lyttelton Harbour, Quail Island, is at present leased for three weeks ut a uominal fee by u party of six young men. ALTHOUGH many got into difficulties, only one mau. was drowned at St. Kilda, Dunedin, during the holidays. He bathed outside the area marked off by the Life-Saving Club. ' ‘ CAR chugging on to the sports ground was the cause of Major Miller stopping the performance pro tem of the Grenadier Guards Band at Rangiora during Christmas week. ON New Year’s Day prisoners in Mount Eden -Gaol, Auckland, were entertained for an hour and a half witha programme of recorded music. Each prisoner also received a bag of sweets. A CHRISTCHURCH visitor to the races at Ellerslie last week astounded his fel.. low-punters in the same party by backing five winners in succession. They were all-up bets, too, and the lucky picker collected over £120 from the "tote." PRETTY young thing, whose red tinted toenails peeped out from a pair of open sandals, was the envy of men in a first-class smoker on the Limited Hxpress from ‘ Auckland to Wellington a few’ nights ago. On the journey she consumed half a bottle of gin! Wwas it just a coincidence that Auckland detectives raided several bookmakers and arrested the *pencillers and their clients the day before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., resumed his seat on the bench at the Auckland Police Court? Mr. Wilson has already con|signed one or two bookies *to prison.