Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 33, 22 February 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

OMDB bales of wool in last week’s .Wellington wool Sale were branded "2YA." [tz is believed that "Uncle Serim," of the Friendly Road, paid an unobtrusive and unexpected visit to ZYA the other evening. , "Rf ODERN methods," reJj, marked one listener when le heard the announcement from 8YA: "We Shall Feed His Flock By Handel." N ex-captain, with a fine War record and boasting many inedals, is being employed as.commissionaire at an Auckland hotel. ANY American. listeners report that 1YA is received better there than any other station in Australia or New. Zealand. HE name of a well-known professional man, victim in a blackmail case, who paid £1100 to a young man, was not divulged in the Auckland Press. a MAN who was "married" in the Friendly Road (14%B) studio last month, was arrested for bigamy in Auckland last Friday. His first Wife lives in Te Awamutu. HE Broadeasting Board’s programme -schedule (on page 380 to-day) is being studied with interest by broadcasting authorities abroad. ;{IvE hundred people lined up in Hereford Street, Christchurch, the other evening in answer to an advertisement asking for 15 people to staff the new Mayfair Theaatre. LTHOUGH many New Zealand booksellers decided that "Children of the Poor" was not "quite naice," the public demand has been so insistent that most of them have been forced to lay in substantial stocks. HD Duchess of Kent chose her spring hats by means of a television broadcast between London and Paris, says a news item. In the opinion of a humble husband dangerous broadcasts of this kind should be discouraged. HERD was a_ novel five minutes’ broadcast on Saturday evening when 2YA hung the microphone outside the studio window as the Institute Band was marching past to the ferry .steamer en route to the band contest at Timarn,

DUNEDIN business man in Auckland; regarded as fair game. by’ mosquitoes, was so badly -bitten that he could not leave his hotel for three days. 3 A TOURIST from a luxury liner recently Anquired if the imposing room .adjoining the women’s rest rooms at the new Auckland railway station was for church services, (CUCUMBERS, eaten skins and all, were devoured at every wayside stopping place by a foreign woman on the Auckland-Wellington Limited last week. T is believed that the new trans-Tasman liner being built for the Union Company will introduce "pay as you go" meals. It'll be a cheap crossing if you’re a_ bad sailor! WELVE young men in shorts actually swam in Fort Street Lane during Jast week’s deluge in Auckland. A good subject for Ripley’s "Believe It or Not‘ talkie series. OW an Auckland bank accountant discovered that a clerk had been embezzling money should make a good story when the case comes before the court shortly. ANNOUNCER at an Australian station: "And if you are not satisfied with the fit, which is almost impossible, your money will be refundT a meeting in Dunedin | last week it was decided to organise © complimentary concerts for Denis Dowling, so that he might further his musical studies abroad. H® Duchess of Westminster, who arrived in New Zealand last week, said she liked Wellington’s "big pink buildings," meaning the new insurance "skyscrapers" near the Bank of New Zealand. AUTHOUGH a "B" station was anxious to pay £5 for the privilege of broadcasting the New Zealand swim: ming championships at Auckland last week-end, 1YA was asked to-do the job-for nothing, of course. LBERT RUSSELL, of radio "joy germ" fame and originator of community singing in New Zealand, ts to be farewelled at a big open air gathering in Carlaw Park, Auckland, on March 12. He is going to Australia to live.