Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 43, 3 May 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

FASTER saw the start of a Galsworthy Festival ‘in London. Five plays are being presented. ROGRESS reports on the municipal elections in Dunedin and suburbs are to be handled on May 8 by 4YA. LJTITLEBOURNE HOUSE, Dunedin, home of the late ' Sir John Roberts, may be used to house several Otago literary collections. HE Hongi Club, an association of New Zealanders at Oxford, is becoming a definite force in the life of the university. WITH the end of Summer Time, Dunedin listeners are beginning to enjoy almost nightly: reception of the Australian stations again. ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a military parade in Dunedin on May 6 as part of the King’s jubilee celebrations. NELSON College old boys , are protesting vigorously against the proposal to rebuild the college (wrecked in the Murchison ’quake of 1929) in wood, FIES, chocolates, cigarettes and china have all «appeared in New Zealand shops bearing the British cori of arms in honour of the King’s Jubilee. UCKLAND Hospital Board received £262 from the Justice Department for Dr. Walter Gilmour’s work in the Bayly . ease. Dr. Gilmour will get £60. NE of Nelson’s hoary-head-ed, but favourite jokes is how the Boulder Bank at the harbour entrance was thrown up by a-Scotsman who dropped threepence in the harbour. T\ addition to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilson giving their Takapuna home for the use of crippled children, four other members of the Wilson family have contributed £10,000 to the fund. INCH Prohibition ended in ' America, "Cruises to No-where‘-being luxury liners taking passengers outside the 12-mile limit for a "good old binge"-have waned in popu‘larity. ' #& UCKLAND’S Gospel ship. ~ Israel, has been burned. uninsured. In a newspaper advertisement. the owner offers to play the steel guitar at concerts to raise funds for re-|-building. the ship.

Hat Shols . NEW mysiery film is de- : scribed in‘ an American paper as "another Whodunit." "MISERY FARM" is the name of. a .house in Devonport, Auckland. Its number is 18, too! FiMPIRE WEEK -in:- Christehurch will. be marked ‘by a big procession of new cars’ from British manufacturers. OTICE outside a Wellington suburban church last. ‘lweek: . "Wedding to-night. Seats free. No collection." GEEN outside a theatre in the north; "Gary Cooper in ‘Lives of a Bengal Dancer.’ " ‘ TO have played golf on 20 South Island links during Haster is the boast of ‘a well-known Wellington airman, HARRY THURSTON hada lot to say last week -to the Christchurch newspapers about broadcasting. in New Zealand. ROM a tiny mud-flat settlement, Mapua, Nelson, has developed in a few years into the biggest apple-exporting port in the country. . "LEE FORE BRACH" (Mr: Forbes Eadie), well-known broadcaster of sea stories, is an aspirant for Auckland municipal honours. AN ex-inspector ,of police and three members of the Communist Party figure as candidates. at the Auckland City Council elections. MARRIED "over the air’ a few weeks ago, an Auckland husband was: arrested last week on a charge of burning his wife with an iron (G2NERAL BOOTH had some very nice things to say about Lord Galway in Wellington at the week-end. HE whole of the Nelson province is divided into camps over the proposal to establish hydro-electric works in the Cobb Valley, near Mount Arthur: , WELL-KNOWN young Wairarapa station-holder, pensively scratching his back with a carving knife, inflicted a wound that required four stitches! How many know that Melling, the small. settlement beyond Lower Hnutt, was named after a foreman in the factory where "Dick" Seddon worked at St. Helens, Lancashire, before coming to New Zealand? .