Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 18 January 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

we QNEAK THIEVES were ac- * tive among the many motorists who were in camp at Mission Bay, Auckland, last week, By Christchurch last week an intoxicated motorist was fined £25, his license suspended for five years, and 4 prohibition order was als¢ issued against him. AWRENCE BWAVIS, of Silverdale, Auckland, by advertisement, announces thai he has successfully launched his "Gospel Ship," and that he wants funds to complete it. TP WENTY-TWO thousand Dunedinites turned out to two of the Grenadier Guards band open-air concerts, which fact proves that the community does appreciate g00d banil music. PoE beautifully warm summer evenings in Welling-!' ton at present make evening drives a delight,, and every night a long line of car lights can be seen along Mount Vietoria, above the city. LTHOUGH Monday, January 7, was the hottest day in Christchurch for two years, the following day’s nor’-wester rendered the water at the local beaches the coldest since the} commencement of the season. SOME southern pressmen accompanying the Duke’s party last week on the West Coast had some privileges curtailed. ‘T’wo had to telegraph their’ offices, who immediately protested, before the privileges were restored. O that onlookers could undlerstand the significance of the drill, the Takapuna Surf Life-Saving Club last week broadcast explanations of the various movements on Takapuna beach through loudspeakers. . HE H.M.A.S8. Australia was en fete iast Thursday in Lyttelton, when many guests were invited aboard for afternoon tea; in the evening nearly 500 representative people in Canterbury were the Captain’s guests at a very en- ‘ joyable dance, ZEW centres are without publie tennis courts, but Dunedin is one. It has fourteen magnificent courts at Logan Park. but one bas to be a member of some etnb before being allowed to. play there However, the erection of courts at the St. Kilaa beach should satisfy a demand.

Hot Shots ANY sailors from H-M.A.S. ‘Australia aboard bicycles were a bright feature in the streets of Christchurch last week, HESS was broadcast for the first time. in the Dominion from Christchurch last week. when the final of the New Zealand championship was being played. SiR HENRY FOWLER, the distinguished English engineer, who was in Wellington last week, said that the streets of the capital city were far too noisy. ECENT hot weather in Dunedin has caused many restrictions to be placed on water consumption. Each day sees the loss of almost a mil- ° lion gallons from tke reservoirs. GITUATED in the building of a prominent firm of bacon. curers, one of the Dunedin B stations. always opens and closes its sessions with a "theme": melody-"This Little Piggy Went to Market." WELLIN GTON’S beaches have never been as popular as they are proving this year. The exceptioual -summer weather brings crowds of adults, as well as children, to them every day of the week. HE: Canterbury Rugby Union’s management committee hag nominated Mr.. T. A. Fletcher, of Wellington, for the position of manager of the New Zealand Rugby team to visit England this year. JYOLLOWING strong cricicism of their action in removing the Duke’s’ wreath from the Cenotaph after the ceremony, the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association placed it on view in a shop’ window. OTHDPR was holding her tiny daughter shoulder.. high so that the little one might get a good view of the Duke. Said mother: "That’s the Duke with the red cap." Little dear (amidst loud laughter) : "Does he wear ‘red socks, too, mummy?" A VISITOR to Wellington, who must be chuckling in his sleeve by now, recently wrote to the daily paper criticising the methods of hairdressers im the city, and the correspondence columns of the paper have been filled ever since by infuriated barbers, who have risen unanimously to the bait.