Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 46, 24 May 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

HE ‘Radio Record" bows to the Melbourne University. Its 1985 extravaganza is to . be called "Hot Shots." "THE Forbury Park Trotting Club has had 5000 ladies’ tickets printed for free distribution by the secretary. HREE Japanese officers strolled nonchalantly into a Wellington beauty parlour last week and asked about a hair wave. , AUCKLAND'S two daily newspapers celebrated the King’s Silver Jubilee by giving their entire staffs a handsome bonus. A WELL-KNOWN Auckland A ° life insurauce man_ last week celebrated the writing of policies totalling £1.000,000 for his company. , A SENIOR reporter on the "Auckland Star" resigned last week to accept a position is Secretary to Mr. Wrnest Davis, the new Mayor of Auckland. 4M NBW ZEALAND woman ARB. Anite, Whose book was Widely praised in the Dominion press recently, said that she received £5 for the manuscript. . AID‘a Jupanese officer to a fair young thing at.a Wellington tea dance last week: "You excuse me not to: dance. My inside... she red-hot." TPACTFUL remurk of a guest at the reception on the Japanese warship. Asama. in Wellington last week: "TI]. suppose those are fhe guns you're going to use for shooting us?’ ,

MR. JOHN ROBERTSON. | champion cornetist. re marked in Dunedin the other day that, with the right coach. ing. most of the A grade brass bands in New Zealand would hold their own at an Engtish, coutest. "WV HAT'S the latest result?’ curtly asked a man who rang 4YA last Wednesday for news of the ‘Tasman flight. "There is no result." he was told, "but here is tbe latest report..." WALTER KINGSLEY. sang » oa "radio encore" on his firs. night in Dunedin. Fle had just finished a scheduled group when he was handed a message from a listener who asked for a particular song, the request beiug granted,’

Hot Shele Bie BROTHER BILI is making plans to start u children’s model aeroplane club in Dunedin, DUNEDIN schoolgir! satd in an essay the other day that "putty is the stuff thit sticks bricks togecher." CHRISTCHURCH cor. respondent points out that the wrestling announcer in that city last week used the word "nasty" 1935 times. "PHE Aucklund bequest bas aroused Wellington’s interest in a cathedral for the eapital. There jis about £90.000 on hand for the building EVIZABDTH KELLY. * outstanding Christchurch artist, has had two portraits accepted for the 1935 Paris Salon. ,

‘Wawzer KINGSLEY, broadeast artist, now in New Zealand, is a brother of {Humphrey Bishop, -well- | known entrepreneur. W H. CARSON, well "known as a_ teller of crime stories from 4YA, has written a book which is shortly to be published by Nationa! Magazines, "THE . TORTOISH AND THE HARHE," new Wali Disney colour symphony necessitated the making of 25.000 separate drawings. compared with the usual 15.000. Hi extension of the radio system at the Auckland Hospital, for which a contract to Johns. Ltd... was let. -has been started. When completed. it will be the best fitted in New Zealand. : NUMEROUS ioctl = com plaints that there is distortion in 1YA’s transmissions proved on investigation to be due to the use of too long an aerial for the powerful] sefs concerned. O and buy some manure and make your hedge grow, then you wan't be able fo see your neizhbour,"? was the advice of Mr. IF’. K. Hunt. S.M., to one of two quarrelling parties in the Auckland Police Cour; last week. | Disaci tewING . with a werd used by the poet 'Keats. Professor Sewell, in igiving evidence for a cross‘word puzzle promoter. charged iby the police with conducting in lottery, said Keats deserved ‘the title of the "Cockney poet."