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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 45, 17 May 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

DDUNEDIN'S new 4YA will . .be on the air in about tive months’ time. HE Christchurch municipal . elections cost the city something like £3000. .

HE Wellington Tail-Wag-gers’ Club is in financial difficulties and may be forced to close. (SHRISTCHURCH is to have two ‘new picture theatres gs month. The Avon opens is week, and the State on May 31. NAID an advertisement in-a Christchurch paper last week:. "Unwilling, ‘unreliable, untidy youth, 19, wants a position. Try me." . ROADCASTING of the _ municipal election’ results from 3YA -did not finish until after 2.a.m. on Thursday morning. (CLEM DAWE and his ‘revue company, now in Auckland, have been playing in New Zealand for a year» This constitutes something of a record for ‘g. visiting company. AUCKLAND'S new mayor, 2 Citizens’ representatives tinds himself at the head’ of a Labour. council, while: Christchurch’s. Labour mayor now heads a Citizen’s council. Sir CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH wanted £150 from each of two North Island men who wanted to cross the ‘Tas-} man’ in: the Southern . Cross. They ‘chose to travel by the Monowai. 2 Fue Jubilee parade in Dun- _» e@din, owing to the wet ground, bad to be split into three sections. The 4YA announcer. was faced with the t sk of describing all three practically ‘simtiltaneously. Manin ‘NEY, former Wel- _, °, lington girl, played a big part in ‘the morality play, "Hveryman," in London at Raster. Her: first managerial venture; "Mrs, Nobby Clark,’} was a "flop." "TEE FORE BRACH": (Mr. Forbes Eadie) was a disappointed man last week. After being informed that he had won his seat on.-the Harbour Board, .:he awoke. the -next morning to find that a mistake had been made. (HRISTCHURCH'S: Mayor d (Mr. D. G. Sulliyan, M.P.) told a reporter that he took strong exception to some of the electioneering remarks of two sucessful: Citizens’ candidates in the municipal electionsHon, W. Hayward and Dr. A. ©, -‘Sandston. '

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More than a million votes : had to’be counted in the ‘Auckland municipal elections. (ONCRETING ‘is practically |. . finished on the nine floors of the new Dunedin post office. S2®VENTEEN thousand-Dun-edin. people have: already seen New Zealand’s first talkie, "Down on the Farm." SEEN in Albert Park, Auckland, last Friday: Two women, both wearing expen: sive fur coats, fighting. HAWKS BAY stationowner was the first to book a through passage from Australia to England on an Im perial Airways’ aeroplane. : WELLINGTON is making _ various arrangements. for entertaining the Japanese naval men who arrive this week. HE English pianist, By Penn, plays from 1YA on Wednesday. His’ principal! piece is Beethoven’s "Moon. light Sonata." AN DONNELLY, associate editor of the Christchurch "Sun," and author of a ‘book recently. published by J. M. Dent, returned from Europe this week. q ‘

‘"fAortnanpnr," of 1ZM 7 (Mrs. M. A. Dreaver, ly -P.) polled more votes than jany other candidate in the Auckland municipal elections. Her total was 17,0138. . She is tow a member of the Hospital Board, ‘THE following extracts are culled from an interview given to the "Isle of Man Examiner" by an Englishman who visited New Zealand recently :-~ New Zealanders seem to have eliminated the. words "sir," "madam," "please," and "thank you" from the ‘lan-

\yuage The country is over-run with insect pests, including house beetles, mosquitoes, stinging fleas and big caterpillars. The New Zealand girls I met had thick, coarse, . yellow; leathery skins, wrinkled and lined prematurely through screwing up the eyes to minimise the effects of sun-glare. ° Italians and Chinamen. do the real work in the country. They build the houses and make the roads. You are told on arriving in New Zealand that if you. attempt to tip any worker you, will be "gratuitousty insufting" him. an The newspapers contain notices of employment with "No English need apply."