IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 26

IN BRIEF

NOTES FROM NEAR AND FAR

Mr. Kingi Tahiwi, son of the wellknown representative on the Maori Advisory Council of the New Zealand Rugby Union, has joined the broadcasting service ■in the capacity of announcer.

Madame Ross-Brodie, mezzo-soprano, of Rangitata, South Canterbury, who has been studying in Australia for some time past, will begin a tour of the national broadcasting stations this week. . .. . ■

Special features from the YA stations next week, will include "The Third Day," an Easter play, from 3YA on-Sunday; "The Adventure of the Dancing Princess" (8.8.C. musical comedy), from 3YA on Monday; 'The High Road," a comedy by Frederick Lonsdale, from 4YA, on Monday; "Memories of the Coronation, of King George-"V" (a .8.8.C. recorded talk), from 2YA on Tuesday; "Victorian Melodies" (8.8.C. recorded programme) from 3YA on Tuesday; further, episode of Cardinal Richelieu serial, from.2YA on Friday;" "Monsieur Beaucaire (8.8.C. recorded programme), from 3YA on Saturday.

Miss Jessie Kirigi the well-known Australian ■ singer who spent several 'years in Christchurch before continuing her studies in London, Paris, and Vienna, has been invited by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board to give a number of recitals from the four chief centres, writes the London correspondent of "The Post." Miss King leaves Liverpool on April 3 by the Taranaki. Auckland will be the first port of call in New Zealand, and from there she will proceed to Wellington, where her first broadcast will be made.. Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin will be visited subsequently, and Miss King expects to stay in the Dominion for six weeks before proceeding, to Australia. Miss.King has had an interesting career. She studied first at the Melba Conservatorium in Melbourne under "the late Miss. Mary Campbell, .and received personal, lesson? from Dame Nellie Melba. During her stay in Christchurch she often gave broadcasts at 3YA. In addition to England and the Continent, she has also been, to Canada. Naturally, she is looking forward to renewing old acquaintances' in New Zealand.

Mr. J. B.- Clark, Director of the 8.8.C. Empire Service, will leave England on May 7 on an extensive tour of the -Empire, writes the London.cor; respondent.of "The Post." One of the objects of his tour is to repay some of the many visits which have been paid to the 8.8.C. by Empire visitors. Mr. Clark also intends to study the reaction to the.B.B.C. Empire Broadcasting Service overseas, and to investigate a number of problems which mutually affect the 8.8.C. and other broadcasting organisations in the Empire. As at' present planned, he will stay in Malta from May 11 until May 16, where -he will be .able to observe the reception of the programmes to be broadcast by the 8.8.C. during Coronation week.. After leaving Malta Mr. Clark will visit Ceylon, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand^ Hong Kong, Malaya, India, Palestine,' Cyprus, and Gibraltar. He hopes to be back in England by the end of this year. Joining the 8.8.C. in 1924, Mr. Clark has had many years of experience in British broadcasting. He was appointed Empire Programme Director in 1932, and promoted to the position of Director of the Empire Service in 1935, when he succeeded Mr. C. G. Graves—now Controller of Programmes for the' entire 8.8.C. organisation. New Zealand should be reached come time in September. The actual date depends upon the length of stay made in Australia.