EMPIRE DAY BROADCAST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 136, 24 May 1933, Page 8

EMPIRE DAY BROADCAST

TO-NIGHT’S UNIQUE PROGRAMME.

ALL COUNTRIES TAKE PART One of the most comprehensive broadcasts yet attempted in the Southern Hemisphere will take place to-day, Empire Pay, when the entire ■ational networks of broadcasting stations in Australia, New Zealand, and tile Pacific Islands will be linked up to a control centre at Sydney to relay a specially-arranged “Southern Seas” broadcast The programme will open with the National Anthem, which will be followed oy an introductory description of the broadcast. Then will follow a "roll call’’ of all national stations in Australia and New Zealand and the Fiji station, with the replies from all the stations called. A presentation of “Advance, Australia Fair’’ by the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s (Sydney) Symphony Orchestra comprising sixty performers, and the combined choirs of the Musical Association of New South Wales and the Australian Broadcasting Commission Choir, of 200 voices in all, will precede a radioed "roll call" of the outpost British commercial stations of the Pacific. All replies will be broadcast. Listeners will hear the lonely watchers at I’ort Moresby, Kavicng (New Guinea), British Solomon Islands and Nauru take part in the celebration; of the day. Following the call to the outpost stations. further orchestral items will be j given before listeners are taken over | to Empire Day dinners in progress in various cities of the Empire on which the sun never sots. World-wide distances will be annihilated when the toast respOH; ' re flashed to the control centre at there to be rebrondr: st through the chain of stations,

both on shortwave and on the broadcast band, to the world. Further orchestral items by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and combined choirs, together with solos by the notable Australian baritone, Alfred Cunningham, and the melodious contralto, Lilian Gibson (whoso items will be given with full orchestral accompaniment) will intersperse the speeches. At approximately 12.10 a.m. (New Zealand time) this broadcast in honour of Empire Day, 1933, will come to a fitting conclusion by the relaying of the National Anthem. Among the speakers will be: Sir Hugh Denison (chairman of the dinner at Sydney), at 9.51 p.m.; His Excellency the Governor-General of Australia (Sir Isaac Isaacs), at 10.11 p.m.; Earl Jellicoe, at 10.16 p.m.; His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand, at 10.21 p.m.; Sir James Barrett (president of the Victorian branch of the Koval Empire Society), at 10.41 p.m.; the Governor of Victoria, at 10.5 p.m.; 11.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, president of the Royal Empire Society in I.ondon at 10.53 p.m.; the Hon. Archdale Parkhill, M.H.R., Postmaster-Gen-eral of Australia, at 11.10 p.m.; the Rt. Hon. J. 11. Whitley, chairman of the British Broadcasting Commission, at 11.19 p.m.