B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 64, 17 August 1944, Page 4

B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

BROADCAST BY WOMAN OP 83.

Mrs Stevens, the widow of a mor chant, is now aged 83. Last year she was invited to broadcast some of her own v ork from the Melbourne stat on, which she did. Just before the outbreak of rhe war she sent to a well-known Oxford Street firm (whose building was later destroyed in the blitz), the remaining piece of the wedding cake wnich they made for her marriage reception in Wells, Somerset, in 1893. With it she sent a letter saying that the cake had been like her married life, “made of good-keeping materials,

wholesome and well-mixed and had remained to the end as attractive as it was when it was new.” This so surprised and pleased the directors of the firm that they not only exhibited the piece of cake with its original aLnond paste, icing, and ornaments, in the littje box in which it had travelled from Australia, but sent out to Mrs Steven.* an iced cake as a gift for her 80th birthday. Writing about her, a friend in Lon- !

don says: 1 ‘This old lady—old in years, but young in spirit, devoted to Australia, but essentially English, still makes music, despite the horrors of war. ’ ’ And the last war brought her personal tragedy. Her son—her only child —was wounded at Gallipoli and invalided out of the Australian Army. He then joined the Sherwood Foresters, and was killed in France. In memory of their son, Mrs Stevens’ husband was a generous benefactor of Melbourne University, and —in memory of all Australian soldiers —also of the Melbourne Hospital.

RIDDLE OP A JAP-OWNED MEDAL.

“If you like puzzles, solve this one: On a Japanese radio set captured on a Pacific Island was a chain with several keys and a medal. That medal was awarded, away back in 1892, to C. R Wilson, for winning the five-mile cycling championship of New Zealand one of the old ‘penny farthing’ mov.. How and when did the Japs get it?”