Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 52, 5 July 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

t ‘ fp material is now arriv- _ ing for the new 500ft. mast for 4YA. (GHRISTCHURCH is to have a Radio Olympia at the end of this month. ULLERS paid Gladys Moncrieff £200 a week for the "Rio Rita" season. DUNEDIN citizen has acquired a block of land on which he intends to build a _bundred houses. \pamre is a possibility of a Russian opera company visiting New Zealand in the near future. reports suggest that the new 2YA might, be built at Titahi Ba or Pencarrow. . WENTY thousand pounds is being spent on the erection of a new block of flats in Christchurch. THREE hundred applications have been received for four vacancies on the staff of the Auckland city traffic officers’ department. | UCKLAND’S Mayor, Mr. Hrnest Davis, last week bought 50 tons of coal for distribution among the needy unemployed of the Queen City. ¥ A CHRISTCHURCH drapery ' firm plans to install an orchestra when it opens its new and commodious tearooms. "THE word "Allah" has been banned from . B.B.C. dance programmes. It is thought that its use in a flippant manner might offend Mohammedans.

\ HORSE standing in a HEN the orchestra at a Wellington dance the other evening played only the first few bars of the National Anthem, the dancers sang it through to the finish. right-of-way beside a Wasy Wellington street on Saturday morning proceeded to eat the shrubs standing outside a nurseryman’s shop. WO new Vildebeeste bomb‘ing planes, making six in all, arrived last week from England and. are being assembled at the Hobsonville Air Base. PERMISSION has been given ' ‘by the Auckland City Council to the Auckland unemployed to hold a monster torchlight procession through the main streets to the Domain on August 1, where. an, antiwar demonstration is to be held.

Hat Shols

(QHRISTOHUROH High School old girls will bold their first ball soon: Twenty debutantes are to be presented. [HE wheelbarrow: which figured in the Wheelbarrow Derby was fitted with a rubber tire. OLLER skating is enjoying a boom in Christchurch, a new rink having been opened: last week. |

MALGAMATHD -THEATRES’ new Auckland house, the "Roxy" opened last week and ‘is doing big business. , ANNA STEN tore up the | film contract she had with ‘Samuel Goldwyn. It was worth £52,000. : SEVERAL houses in 4 Wellington suburb are being painted green — evidently the rage from Sydney has caught on. SoMn Auckland unemployed have been disposing of cheap issues of working boots to pawnshops. One shop is full of Government issue boots ! MADAME ROSS-BRODIE, well-known Canterbury singer, sang at a big community sing in the Sydney Town Hall last week. HIS. year marks: the centenary of the building of Buckingham Palace. It was first occupied by William the Fourth. F¥TER giving interviews: to the two Auckland dailies on Saturday morning, Yehudi Menuhin refused to give any more till Monday. JDUNEDIN Noe H’s campaign for collecting funds for servicing relief camp radio sets continues, a local paper having collected more than £50. N Auckland last week-end one or two "consolation parties’ were given for footballers who missed selection in the All Blacks’ team for Britain. HAT Christchurch was the most over-seated city in the world, was the statement made by Sir Ben. Fuller when discussing Christchurch’s theatres. : GAYS L. Beavis, of Silverdale, builder of the Gaspel ship, in last Wednesday’s "Star": "No funds for New Gospel Ship; will push wheel: barrow, Auckland to Welling ton, play Hawaiian guitar on way, to raise funds."