RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 72, 24 February 1931, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Radio programmes for to-night aro as follow:

IYA’ AUCKLAND (329 metres; 910 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and market reports. 8.0: Chimes. Orchestral Octet; “Great Big David”; “Iris” “Poetiques.” 8.15: Baritone, Mr Len Barnes “What Would IDo for My Queen.” 8.21: Piano, Mr Cyril Towsey “Andanto and Rondo Capriccioso. 8.27: Mezzo-soprano, Miss Merle Miller “At Night”; “Tho Lake Isle of Innisfrce”; “I Love Thee.” Octet “In a Persian Garden”; “Valse de Concert.” 8.45: Topical Talk by Mr A. B. Chappell, M.A. 9.0: Evening weather forecast and announcements. 9.2: Octet “Welsh Melodies”; “Drink to Me Only.” 9.12: Mezzo-soprano, Miss Merle Miller “For Ever and a Day”; “Somewhere in This Summer night”; “Heart’s Ease.” 9.18: Octet, “Idylle.” 9.21: Baritone, Mr Len Barnes “Son Lo Spirito Che Nega”; “Ulysses.” 9.29: Octet “Dance of tho Tumblers.” 9.22: Danco music. 11.0: Close down.

2YA WELLINGTON (416.7 metres; 720 kilocycles.—s.o; Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News session. 7.40: “For the Man on the Land.” 8.0: Chimes. Orchestra “Russian Dances. 8.16: Soprano, Miss Ella Fair “My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair”; “Dear When I Look.” 8.22: Records. 8.26: Baritone, Mr Harry Matthew, “Tally Ho”; “If Ever I Meet the Sergeant.” 8.32: Violin, Mr W. Haydock, “Melodio.” 8.36: Records. 8.47: Contralto, Miss Renee Shoad, “The Market” ; “Golden Dancing , Days.” 8.54:. Orchestra, “Two Songs.” 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.2 : Records. 9.10 : Baritone, Mr Harry Matthew, “The Cottage Where Dreams Como True”; “Kitty.” 9.16: March, Mr Jack Farrell and his Banjo Quintet, “Happy Go Lucky”; “Tne Darkies’ Patrol.” 9.24: Soprano, Miss Ella Fair, “ 'Tis the Hour of Farewell.” 9.28: Orchestra, “Menuotto A 1 Aintico”; “Serenade”; "Coquette.” 9.38: Contralto, Miss Renee Shead, “Bridal Dawn.” 9.41: Records. 9.46: Orchestra, “Glory of Russia.” 10.1: God Sa'-e tho King.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH 306 metres, 980 kilocycles).—Silent. 4YA DUNEDIN (463 metres;- 650 kilo cycles).—s p.m.: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinnor music. 7.0: News session. 8.0; Chimes. Overture, “New Sullivan Selection.’’ 8.9 : Contralto, Miss Mary Somerville, “Ye Powers That Dwell.” 8.13: Saxophone Band, “Harmoniana Overture”; “La Paloma.” 8.26: Scottish Humour, Mr James A. Paterson .“The Boss o’ the Hooso”; “There’s a Wee White Heather Growing”; “Down in the Quarry.” 8.37: Instrumental trio, “Song Without Words in A Flat.” 8.41: Soprano, Miss Cicely Audibert, with instrumental trio, “C’e«t Yous?” “This is Heaven”; “Dream Lover”; “Love.” 8.53: Saxophone Band, ‘‘Tho Spirit of Franco”'-, “Dreamy Alabama.” 9.1: Weather report and station notices. 9.3: Records. 9.11 : Contralto, Miss Mary Somerville. “The Fairy Pipers”; “0 Peaceful England.” 9.16: Saxophone Band, “Fast Asleep in Poppyland.” 9.20: Records. 9.26: Instrumental Trio, “Second and Third Movements from ‘Trio in D Major’.” 9.37: Tenor, Mr J 13. Hamilton, “Less Than the Dust”; “In the Garden of To-mor-row”; “My Task.” 9.47: Records. 9.53; Saxophone, Mr Jack Magoo, “Nola”; ‘Golden Spur.” 10.1: God Save the King. 2FG SYDNEY (451 metres, 665 kilo cycles).-—8 to 11.30: Concert programme. 2BL SYDNEY (350 metres; 857 kilocycles).—B to 11.30 p.m. 2GB SYDNEY (316 metres; 950 kilocycles).—B to 10.30: Concert programme. 3LO MELBOURNE (375 metres; 800 kilocycles).—B to 10.30: Concert programme. 3AR MELBOURNE (484 metres; 620 kilocycles).—B to 10.30: Concert programme. 4QG BRISBANE (395 metres, 760 kilocycles).—B to 11.0: Concert programme. Note.—New Zealand summer time is two hours ahead of eastern Australian time. A FRIEND IN NEED. (By “Microphone.”) Apropos the assistance rendered by radio in connection with the Hawke’s Bay earthquake, an averseas writer states that during- the severe earthquakes in Southern Italy recently, the wireless coach of the Italian State Railways rendered valuable service in maintaining communication with towns outside the eilected area. The equipment comprised not only a completo telegraph and telephone equipment for attachment to telephone lines, but also a wireless installation consisting of three transmitters and three seceivees. BATTERY LOGIC. An outstanding characteristic of the lead-acid type storage battery as used as the A-battery- to supply filame.nt current for a radio receiver, is the remarkable ser. vice it gives while it is reasonably new. It will stand for weeks at a time partly charged and, perhaps, with the water level bolow the tops of the plates, and yet give good services. The day of reckoning comes rather suddenly. Some evening the radio goes dead, and you discover that the battery is completely discharged. Then, after you g:ve it a long charge, it works well for a time, when the same thing happens again. The useful life of qny storage battery is governed by the care you give it. It may last lees than a year, or it may give four or five years of good service. But no matter how carefql you are, it won’t last much longer than five years. When a battery must be charged every two or three days even when not used, it has outlived its -usefulness and should be replaced. No amount of charging or attention will bring a decaying storage battery back to life again. To prolong the life of your storage A-battery, do not let it become discharged bolow 1200 on tho hydrometer. It is Bettor to give it a small charge once a week than to let it go two weeks between charges.