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Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 2, 19 July 1935, Page 5

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QUEEN Carnival in Christchurch hopes to raise £20,000 for the relief of distress. S a result of appeals during the children’s hour, 8YA has raised a considerable amount of money for charity. ‘THE company that made the ' Dunedin talkie, "Down on the Farm," is busy on a second picture in Southland. FTER making three at4 tempts at the word ‘"un- \ atterabte," a Dunedin anYoouncer decided to use another. HE building of a cathedral is suggested us the Anglican Church’s way of marking Wellington’s centenary in 1940. (THERE is much comment on the decision of the Auckland Professorial Board’s ban on smoking by women students, J{VERY seat-10,000 at a guinea each-is booked for Menuhin’s concert in the Albert Hall, London, on December 1 next. "HERE is more golf played in New Zealand than in any other country I know," said Gene Saracen on his return to America. 4 MENUHIN’S concert plat4 form attire-silk shirt and double-breasted coatoccasioned some comment during his Wellington concerts. * CHRISTCHURCH firm has advertised for a ‘‘Representative, calling on hotels through the North Island." That ought to be easy. "OLD gangster pictures and overdone love dramas are almost things of the past," said a visiting film authority in Auckland last week. MARBLE bust. of ‘Nurse Maude will now be placed jon public exhibition in Christ- . It was executed] some years ago, but Nurse Maude refused to allow it to be exhibited. HE Rev. H. K. Archdall, whose resignation from the head-mastership of King’s College. Auckland, caused -much speculation, left by the Monterey. last week for Sydney. A WELLINGTON religious} / body’s poster outside the mission hall: . Community Singing and Snappy Sermon. Terrific Farthauale Prophesied. Will Wellington Fali In 1935? Free! Everybody Welcome!

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"Noe Bookmakers"-Welling-ton headliné. Oh, yeah? ‘NUURSE. MAUDBR’S body tay in state in the Ghristchurch Cathedral on Saturday and Sunday. "OTALL DE BOOZIO" read a notice above: one of the stalls at Wellington’s ‘Plunket Ball last Friday ‘night. (CHAPLIN’S much-discussed film-as yet unnamedis now finished, but will not be released for some months. UCKLAND has had to. ration its oyster supplies. Stout is still plentiful this season. however. ELSON is to have another picture theatre. It will be ready for opening on Christmas Bye. AN Auckland drapery firm celebrated its jubilee last week by giving every member of its staff a gift of money and three days’ holiday. (CAPTAIN HEBER PERCY, the Governor’s aide-de-camp, was involved in a collision with a taxi while returning from a ball in Auckland. QGOMEONE else-this time a film man-has said that itelevision is still a long way ‘off. We are beginning to believe it is. every one of the Majestic’s 2300 seats had been booked for the Broadcasting Board’s charity coneert in Wellington. "RAUST see this picture, "The. Wife of Epstein,’ when it comes," saia a Wellington business man the other day. He meant "The Bride of Frankenstein." "()RANGIO" trees (camellia bushes with balls of orange erepe paper attached) formed the colourful decorations for Wellington’s Plunket Ball last week. DECISION to put all Scheme 5 men off horough works was made last week by the Takapuna Borough Council. The men will be placed on sustenance. | SOUTH AMBRICAN ranch-holder told an Auckland paper last week that our sheep were the best in the world, but our beef was far behind South American, RADIO talk from London © the other evening told of the protracted journey of the Waikato from London to New Zealand in 1899. when the vessel lost ‘her propeller-shaft and drifted for 102 days. Y midday last Thursday *