Your side of the MICROPHONE

Radio Record, 6 May 1938, Page 25

Your side of the MICROPHONE

UEUSSUDSGOUECRCRODUCUOSUSSURRASEGAUCODSEECSERSSSACEREOSOLUAESORSSSRESESASSRSASORAASEUROLOELEREDSEREUURESERE SESE? Prize-winners this week are: ‘‘Solemn’’ Christchurch (7/6); "A.R.C.A.." Te Aroha (5/-); ‘Klondike Kate,"" Auckland; ‘"‘A.L.,"’ Wellington; ‘Vox Missa,"’ Wellington, and ‘‘Needles,’’ Otorohanga (2/6 each). Send your entries (not more than 150 words each) to "SAFETY VALVE," P.O. Box 1680, Wellington. Prize-money will be forwarded at the end of each month. DEIIESTISIS ILI Sil itiiiiii ite ti lisitl est istiisiisriii siti siittititiisiiiitiii tit iitiitlitiitiiiitelitiiitite EATIDESTPittietetittlitiiiiiiiiiis

LL the world loves a_ lover, and every happily and unhappily married woman readily gives advice and assistance to the bride. But there are brides-many of

them-living in remote places or debarred by reason of personal pride from seeking the help of neighbours and friends, Poor brides! Theiy problems are many and varied from the culinary questions of just how many seconds an egg should be cooked, to how many stitches are required hefore that button on hubbies’ trousers becomes a permanent fixture. Give the brides a real orange blossom session of their own and smooth the stony path of

matrimony for

~'Klondike

Kate,"

Auckland.

Race Dividends HY don’t they announce the dividends paid at race meetings? The law as it stands simply prohibits publication in newspapers or by exhibiting documents in public giving the information. The broadcast word was undreamed of tyhen the law was enacted. JETCLAILELITL TACT IT TATTLE LCL A ATARI ILI TRICE TRE LI TILL Lilitiiiilniiiik

PIM EU Ce cd Personally, I have twice heard dividends announced, but no proceedings were taken. The point could be settled in'a simple way by the authorities obtaining a legal opinion and having a

case decided in the courts.-*Vox Missa," Wellington, Picin And Purl OW about it ladies? Every other woman in New Zealand at present is knitting in preparation for the winter, so why not let us have a little bit of time over the sir? A, competent Woman could describe new stitches in a few words and provide us with other hints on the subject. These talks would interest all women-and some men too. Why shouldn’t our programme have a ' homely touch as we sit over a fire and

count the stitches?-

Needles

Otoro-

nanga.

Publicity T was the nervous voice of an old lady, a soft, bewildered and uneducated voice, but the voice of a very human person. She told the old, old story of the pioneer-of coach-drives over ill-made roads, of loneliness and hardship, of flood and fire and (piece de resistance, this) of a bushranger. You saw a little weatherboard house lit with kerosene lamps, the only light for miles around. "And it was so quiet," she said, "except when the dingoes howled. . ." Then the announcer, brisk and busi-nesslike-‘But.a few years ago Mrs. Jones was troubled with rhenmatism and obtained great benefit from SureCure Pills, sold everywhere at 1/6 per bottle. Is that not right, Mrs. Jones? Now our time is up, aud Mrs. Jones will say good-night." I was about to switch the thing off when the Voice came on again, rather bewildered now but undaunted by modern science or modern ways, and as though speaking to her flock of children Mrs. Jonec said simply and sweetly,

"Good-night, my dears_

A.

L.

Wei-

lington.

For Dull Days MPO-DAY is a melancholy day. It is cold; the hills are shrouded in mists; frequent rain showers keep everything extremely moist and dreary, According to weather reports, this condition seems fairly general. And here we sit like birds in the wilderness, as the old song goes, des-

perately: fighting off Old Man Depression, turning the dial round and round in a frantic search for bright entertainment. From one station come "Frousehold Hints" (and we're fed up completely with the house to-day), from a second comes a talk on China (for very small children, evident-

ly), and from a third comes heavy, ultra-classical music. Please, Mr. Programme Organiser, could you not alter your more serious programmes on days like these, and give us something cheery and happy?-

Junette

Wellington. —

Child Stars SOME time ago, there was a programme called "Stars in the Nur-sery’-a recital by world-famous children. If they have any more programmes like this one I should be glad if they would let us hear them. Being youthful and very fond of music, I like to hear children of my own age (or younger), who hare made good in the musical world.-"Mad About Music," Hastings.