Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 29, 25 January 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

=> -_ /the Douglas Social Credit As- ; T a recent picnic held at ‘ the seaside at Auckland. the St. John Ambulance men attended to 50 casualties. ' PHOTOGRAPHER wao endeavoured to get a photo of the Duke at Christchureh on Saturday fell into vc River Avon, 4 ROM Frank Neil’s revue: I don’t like sausages. I want tripe. Well, turn on the radio then. HE Grenadier Guards’ Band which sailed from Auckland last Friday gave its first and last concert in the Dominion at Carlaw Park. HE Mount Cook Tourist Company is organising ‘10-day "land cruises" for £15. The cruise covers portions of the Southern .Alps and Can terbury. . "(GG REENSHIRTS" have made their appearance down south. This particular colour denotes members of sociation. UNEDIN listenerg have been treated to an amiaing competition organised last week by a B station. It concerns the errors and pronunciations of arfnouncers. AST week thieves raided the camp of the Seventh: Day Advéntists at Hamilton,' und secured good hauls from, the various tents while: the! occupants were asleep, | { A DARING journey from| Wanganui to Auckland! in a canvas canoe was made} by a 17-year-old pupil of Wan-, ganui Collegiate School. He! reached Auckland last Wednesday after paddling across lakes, seu and rivers for: five weeks. T was a tragie coincidence that Saturday, when Mr. Noel Roake lost. his life ag a result of a ‘plane smash in Canterbury, vag also the) opening day of the remodelled | Crystal Palace, the _ first! theatre managed by Mr} Roake in Christchurch, WHEN 2YA was built on Mt, Victoria, it was eynsidered a pretty hot sort of station. But neyer so hot as it was the other afterncon when « big serub fire com: pletély enveloped it in flames. . | N Auckland paper tast! week.‘told at length of nudist revels on Rangitoto Is-l land, But’ why go so. far afield? 'There’s a cosy little nudist colony near Milford.

'T Hot Shots , Two of the stat€ of a Dunedin B station are en route to. Australia to.study the latest broadcasting methods. ‘HIEVES removed a radio: set installed.in a motor car which was left parked in an Auckland street last week. | QTEAMER whistles could be heard distinctly during the yacht .race_ broadcasts from Lyttelton: last week. QNE of the men who sets type for the "Radio Record" won several thousanii pounds in an Australian sweepstake last week. HE size of the new Govsr-nor-General’s staff looks as if Viscount Galway may bring some of the splendour of a bygone day back to Wellington’s Government House, HE story is told that a certain notable visitor (guess who?) after riding at Marten came off. the course and remarked to one of his. staff, "T rode. like a -- old woman" ‘PHE latest issue of "Everyones," Australian film paper, appears with 12 blank pages, the explanation being that the advertising copy wa3 received but temporarily caiicelled by the advertisers. ReMooR has it that a New Zealand: writer may he awarded the King’s Medal for a book of poems published last year. (CHRISTCHURCH’s penny- paper wxr is likely to be ‘followed by a theatre war. With three new theatres going up managements are prep:iing to meet the competition by drastically reducing prices. HE Christchurch ‘Press" came out for the first time the other day with colour on some of its pages. The Wellington ‘Dominion’. has frequently published advertisements in several colours. A WERLL-KNOWN Wellington man at. present in London was relieved of ‘a considerable sum by confidence tricksters last month. HE new Prudential buliding on Lambton Quay, Wellington, is to have an even more vividly pink exterior than the Colonial Mutual building across the road. HE wife of the late Mr. Noel Roake. manager of the Regent. Theatre, . Christchurch, who’ was drowned last week when his plane was forced down at sea, is a member of the: Newbigin family, well known in Hawke’s Bay.