Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 15 March 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

"MEAT Levy Dead"-as the meat? RATHER a hot story this week about pepper speculation, eh? HEADLINE says "Gold Disappears." Where, oh where can we find originality to-day? x PERSON in a high place "" appeals for "milk for the young." Quite a back-to-nature movement, surely. T looks as though one might be able to send a message by Malcolm Campbell more quickly than by wireless shortly. S Dunedin has five B stations, listeners are wondering which of them will recéive assistance from the new Broadcasting Board. WOMAN vocational guidance officer for unemployed girls has been appointed in Christchurch. the first in New Zealand. AY we consider ourselves . unique in that this is the only mention we are making of the arrival of the Dunedin quadruplets? At a society wedding in Wellington recently a grave was being industriously dug just outside one of the main church doors during the ceremony, Shades of Hamlet! F a seven-year-old locomotive in Mngland can attain a speed of 108 m.p.h., what should most of our own engines do, with about four times as much experience? RoMouR says that only j two men are to be charg- . gs in court in connection with the recent raid at Te Aroha. What.about the other 192 persons Whose names were taken? "PURE, unadulterated tripe" was the way Mr. Semple described New Zealand radio programmes list week. We're not interested-we like onions as well. A FEW nights ago, at midas night, a woman ratepayer phoned the mayor of One Tree Hill, Auckland. and asked him to arrange for the immediate removal of a dead rat on her property. KARLY every set in Wellington seems to have been tuned in to Harry Thurston the first night he broadeast from 2YA. One ignoramus thought that he was the Broadcasting Bill you may have heard about.

Hot Shot

A FARMER from the: Wai- ~ kato was last week taken down by two confidence tricksters for £400. REPORTS of octopuses in '. Wellington Harbour remind us about that income tax form wé tried to forget. O a sixth of U.S.A.’s population is on relief rolls. That’ll keep the bakers busy, anyway. HE two well-known radio personalities, Albert Russell and Reg. Morgan, are shortly leaving New Zealand on a tour abroad. Two Dunedin firms played their annual "cricket" match last week, using a special bat althost as wide as the wickets. (QHRISTCHURCH kindergartens are leading by £60 in the copper trail race across Cook Strait against Wellington kindergartens. N Auckland firm’s application to start sky advertising by means of an’ illuminated balloon was refused by the City Council last week. (THE session is expected to end within a fortnight. Then we shall be able to sit back and enjoy what is left of che summer, "HE Wind and the Rain," Dr. Merton Hodge’s play, is drawing bigger houses in New Zealand than legitimate shows have done for years. HE four big neon signs on top of the 100ft. mast over the new 1YA_ station were switched on for the first time last week. They can be plainly seen from the harbour. yf Hitler’s famous cold becomes as fashionable as the Duke’s moustache, we must alter that heading of ours to "Gerbady Callig Dew ZeaJad." . ACCORDING to. the master of the Pakuranga Hunt, too many people follow the hounds just to get their names in the papers, There is to be n further publicity at meets. PSTEIN appears to have provided England with almost as much ground for discussion anu controversy as the Subject he treats in his latest work, PLLINGTON’S wellknown Grand. Hotel is ealling for tenders for extensive alternations, It is nnderthat. the present. building will be extended to Boulcott Street.