Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

\ . SN OW, fell on Canterbury back country last week, but the week-end saw a return to summer. conditions. DUNEDIN B station has inaugurated a series of 1alks on "Radio," "Gardening" and "Mothereraft." "(HE Christchurch property "~ market is lively at the moment. A hotel changed hands at £25,000, another proerty at £15,000, with several her sales pending. "THE membership having fallen from 270 to 50, the Pacifie Club, a teetotal organisation, closed its doors in Auckland last week after an existence of "2S yeure. WELL-KNOWN _ radio personality is said to have.been caught in the big raid on the "Calcutta" game at Te Aroha recently. "He taught my brother and I:-French and German," said a 2YA speaker recently. Wouldn’t it have been better if he had first taught him English ¥ f AN GIRLS’ mouth organ band, under the conductorship of A. SS. Broadribb (who used'to play the mouth organ from 1YA) is. being featured from: 1ZB. There are 15 players in the band. "TN the interests of the public a man who plays a Wurlitzer organ deserves to go to gaol," said Mr. F, K. Hunt, S.M., facetiously last Friday when an organ mechanic was before him for theft. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, A line of cars winds slowly o’er the lea; A pedestrian plods his absentminded way And leaves the world quite unexpectedly. N a 1YA talk on Shakespeare last week a speaker said that "one of the queens of Wngland ‘had the wind up."". In answering a complaint from a listener a 1YA official. remarked that had Shakespeare himself thought of the expression he would probably have gladly used it. ACOORDING: to an Auckland newspaper. Clem Dawe "cleaned up" about £3000 duriag his Christchure vaudeville season. I ‘ig a year ago this weck since the ’quake which did considerable damage to Pahiatua and Masterton.

[™ is a curious fact that those people who "never listen | ‘to 4¥A" are continually pointing out the station’s faults. ‘WV BLL-KNOWN beauty specialist in Wellington this week hag not. washed her face for eight years, she says. Special creams-do the’ job. OLD Girls from all over New Zealand are in Christchurch just now for the St, Margaret’s College jubilee celebrations. THE first reading of the Broadcasting Bill in the House was, contrary to expectations, barely commented on in Dunedin. "THE difficulty of transportation during the' warm weather caused the disappearance of oysters from the Christchurch market for two weeks, BOUT 800 people attended Uncle Scrim’s meeting in the Wellington Town Halil, compared with 15,000 who attended his "six-band rally" at Carlaw Park, Auckland. So one prophet hath honour in his own town. HILE Uncle Scrim battles for longer hours for the "Wriendly Road" station, churchmen of various denominations are asking for their own radio stations. Will this mean an ether-eal conflict? BOUT £14,000 of contemporary British art was displayed at the opening of Mrs. Murray Fuller’s exhibition in Wellington last week. An etching was sold in the first 10 minutes. "Te present-day problems were put into the hands of a child there would be no problem," says 1ZR’s Uncle Secrim. The birth-rate battle between Hitler and Mussoiini is understood to be an effort to find the right child. Ber fer the fact that the Chrisielvyreh Boys’ Aigh School was holding its picnic there, the settlement at Dia-. mond Harbour, Lyttelton, would have been wiped out by fire last week. The boys and. masters put up a winn'ng fight. . R. J. A. ©. ALLUM, chairman of the Transport Licensing Authority, weleomed visiting oarsmen to Auckland last week, saying that rowing was the only form of transport he hadn’t opportunity to lecense. "T feel I'm among friends here," he added.