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Radio Record, 12 June 1936, Page 5

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ACCORDING to a Dunedin radio speaker, more than 700 items appear on some Chinese menus, JUMB8BLWD words compe. tition put over the air by a Dunedin B station drew more than 700 replies. "COARSE YARN PRICES" is the heading to a news item in an English paper. However, it has nothing to do with the manufacture of smok-ing-room stories. HEN put down for an early gare, a Dunedin first grade soccer eleven refused to turn out. N article in a Dunedin daily on the scarcity of male shorthand typists attracted replies from all vver the Dominion. "THE advertising department of a large provincial daily in the north recently received am advertisement written on the: back of a donble-chart. DUNEDIN reporter considered that many of the items in the capping procession were vuigar, and said so through the columns of his paper.

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ALES of the Anzac Stamp ‘in the Dunedin postal district have shown a steady decrease since the day they were released. ;,MPIRE Theatre, Duneilin, is having new heating apparatus and a Western Electrie wide-range sound system installed. . "THE Postmaster-General flew from Wellington to Dunedin last week specially to attend the W.H.A, anniversary celebrations. HEN he "told off" the girls working under him, the manager of @ Dunedin shop was unecrenoniously picked up and dropped down a@ rubbish chute by his employees. . A "DRUNK," who appeared in’ the Dunedin Police Court, had celebrated the Government’s raising of ‘the standard of living for "us poor unfortunate workers." IN his opening address at the Auckland Society of Arts exhibition last week. Sir Percy Sargood said there was an affinity between art and matrimony. Men seeking a partner -conld come and study the ‘types of female beauty!