Christchurch Has Novel Street Entertainer

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 35, 10 February 1939, Page 5

Christchurch Has Novel Street Entertainer

({RAMOPHONISTS, vocalists, violinists and cellists have, at one time or another, entertained Christchurch people in the city streets, and earned a living, more or less, from the compassionate, Members of an older generation will remember a very fine German band who gathered crowds wherever they played. What happened to them after many years spent in every city of New Zealand nobody knows. But times have certainly changed, and very few street entertainers are left in New Zealand. Christchurch has one whose medjum is a powerful radio set on wheels. The other afternoon it stood right outside the doors of 2ZB and competed vigorously with the loudspeaker in the lounge. It would have been rather unfortunate if the operator had gone all YA.