EXHIBITION RADIO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19762, 13 April 1926, Page 10

EXHIBITION RADIO.

THIS WEEK’S PROGRAMMES. The following programmes will be broadcasted from VLDN, the Exhibition radio station, during the week: — To-night.—7.4s p.m., information service; 8.0 p.m.. Highlanders’ Band performance: 10.0 p.m., close down. Wednesday.—7.4s p.m.. information service; 8.0 p.m.. Highlanders' and performance: 9.30 p.m., an address by Mr R. W. Marshall, of the Tourist Department; 9.45 p.m.. studio items; 10.0 p.m., close down Thursday. vice; 8.0 p.m.. Highlanders’ Band performance; 9.30 p.m.. an address by Mr H. R. Spence, secretary of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Company; 9.45 p.m.. studio items; 10.0 p.m.. close down. Friday.—7.4s p.m., information service: 8.0 p.m.. concert from Wellington Court: 10.0 p.m.. close down. Friday.—7.4s p.m., information service: 8.0 p.m.. dance programme from the Savoy. Dunedin; 10.0 p.m.. close down. GOVERNMENT KINEMA. The closing of yet another Exhibition week concludes a period of conspicuous success at the kinema in the New Zealand pavilion. The popularity enjoyed by the model theatre during the-v Easter week-end has not waned, and yesterday visitors entered in a steady stream at every session. Up to comparatively recently the head office of the Government Publicity Department in Wellington has been forwarding the very latest films at intervals, and the repertoire of the kinema has been an ir-to-date and comprehensive one. Though there are only three more Exhibition weeks every effort will be made to give visitorsi the best right up to closing day. To-day four excellent pictures will be screened at each session. The first is “Better Farming Train,” a new industrial educational film that will he shown for the first time at (he Exhibition. Next is “Across Canada.” a scenic travelogue that has already pleased hundieds of kinema patrons, while the programme is completed with “Te Arolia” and “Napier," two New Zealand films. EXHIBITION CABARET. There is little doubt that this week will be one of the busiest in the history of the Exhibition Cabaret. Not only will the regular attractions be as great as ever, but the management will offer quite the most novel and generous inducement that has yet been placed before patrons. Every evening 2 three months’ passes to one of five Dunedin picture theatres will be presented to a lucky couple on the floor during a certain dance The theatres are the Octagon, the Empire, the Queen’s, Everybody’s, and the Grand. Every evening this week the distribution of the prizes will continue, and there is sure to be a rush to be present at the hour when the competition is add. There is no test of dancing skill —the chances of all are equal. Last evening the first competition was held, and proved very successful, the winners being heartily applauded by all who were present. The cabaret continues to offer all that is best in music, surroundings, and service. Under the direction of Manuel Hyman the band excelled itself last evening, and this morning many entirely new numbers will be rehearsed. They will be played this evening.

COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT.

A TRIBUTE TO THE BAND. During the past five months thousands of Dunedin citizens have spent some of the happiest afternoons and evenings they can remember enjoying the wonderful music evoked every day for their entertainment by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Band. With the close of the Exhibition rapidly approaching, the time has now come for some public recognition of the splendid services of the band, and the directors have therefore decided to b old a complimentary benefit concert in the Festival Hall on Wednesday, April 21. The entire proceeds, without any ieductions whatever, will be handed to the bond for division amongst its members Both the object of the concert and the fact that the programme will include a new composition by Mr F. J. Ricketts, entitled “ Dunedin,” which is • dedicatee, to the Exhibition, should ensure that there will not be a vacant seat in the hall on the night of the concert. Preferential reservations will open at the Bristol to-morrow.

GENERAL NOTES.

HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE. The Commissioner of the New Zealand Government Pavilion (Mr J. W. Collins), who spent Easter in Wellington, will return this evening and will resume duties at the court to-morrow morning. To-morrow afternoon, in the Women’s Section, a special display of Javanese Batik work will be given in the stand that is devoted to the showing of beautiful samples of this attractive Eastern cloth. Lately a fresh consignment of Batik work arrived at the court, where it has interested all visitors. Miss Wallace, who is in charge of the exhibit, will demonstrate and lecture during the afternoon. A consignment of Nelson fruit for display in the Wellington Court has arrived, and was placed in the new stand at the end of last week. This is one of the most striking exhibits in the court, and lias attracted a great deal of attention from all visitors. In line with the many other departments of the Exhibition, the court will sell fruit to visitors, and lots will be disposed of by the case. This will be an opportunity for all who are in the court from now until the close of the Exhibition. Consignments will arrive at intervals as fast as they are disposed of. Another new exhibit in the court is a fine blue boar’s head, lent by Mr AI. C. M’Taggart. It was shot in the Moonshine reserve, and is mounted for display purposes. Everyone who knows the gallant history of the cruiser New Zealand, the Dominion’s gilt to the Mother Country, that boasted such an excellent war record, will thrill with pride when examining the memento in the naval section of the machinery pavilion. It is the steering wheel from the top wheelhouse of the cruiser the mechanism that under skilled guiding hands sent the ship racing towards the German fleet at Jutland. Round the wheel in brass lettering is the motto of the ship, "Ake Ase Ake Kia Kaha” (“Fight on! Fight on for ever,”) The New Zealand K now no more. She died in the shipya Us of the British Isles/but such mementos keep her memory evergreen. In a corner of the big Otago Court may be found a particularly interesting exhibit from the goldfields of Central Otago. It a “quern” or Chinese baud mill found in Chinatown, at Lawrence, : id believed to have been over 2000 years Old. The quern is made of a very hard stone, and was apparently used for grinding quartz in small quantities. The principle is a r.i-'?t primitive one, but the mill appears to have had much use. It was bought c - :t from China by a party of the first Ctfe'sials to mM« for the mining areas n f the Central. Sulphur from White Island has been dis-pia-ed in the Auckland Court since the oajning, but the exhibit has been added to by n sot of excellent photographs taken in various paits of the island and mounted on three frames which stand in ;ront of the case containing the samples. _ Ihq photographs give a graphic indication at 1 the volcanic activities in the island ft? Wr*

as the bird lib) that is to be found there. The operations of the new company that is exploiting ihe rich fields of pure sulphur to be found in various parts are also described. It appears likely that White Island sulphur will take a great and important pi art in the market* of the world. Three very important, visitors entered the main gales of Logan Park yesterday afternoon. After a tour through the courts ami pavilions and an extended visit to the W.C.T.U. creche at the roar of the Amusement Park, where they were accorded a fitting welcome, they departed, highly delighted with all they had seen. Iheir names are Muriel Sutherland, affod t''o years and one month, Douglas Sutherland, aged two years and one month and eraser Sutherland, aged two years and one month —the first triplets to visit Logan tain. They are the children of Mrs A. H. Sutherland, of St Kilda, who took them to the Exhibition for the first time, and as their coming is unique in the history of the children's creche, a silver spoon is to be presented. Sitting in their carriage at the foot of the Grand Court prior to their departure, the triplets had little to say. l3 ”* their faces were wreathed in smiles as they gazed for the last time towards the fascinating outline of the Great Dome. If the weather is fine there is ceitain to be a tremendous crowd at the la grand fireworks display to-morrow night, and those who desire to avoid the inconvenience of battling for an advantageous position with the last minute crowd should not delay an hour longer in reserving their scats at the Bristol. The programme is on a scale which has ne el before been attempted, including over 60 remarkable novelties, among which are numbered a dozen magnificent elaborate set pieces. In a word, nothing has been left undone to make the lasting atti action scheduled for the Exhibition period the most triumphant of all the many successes which the Exhibition has produced since last November, and Dunedin may be relied on to make a fitting response. “It has been mv lot to have been placed next to Australia in the Exhibition, saui Fiji’s Commissioner, the Hon. K. Boyd, in speaking at the reception to Sir Henry Harwell last evening. “I have bee- able to see the rise of the representation, and can say without fear of contradiction that under the capable management ot the commissioners a bright, ettective, anci welbdisplayed Exhibition has been iaici down.” In lighter vein Mr Boyd .commented on sundry features. A lady visitor had complained of the absence of wattle,but he could testify to an inexhaustible supply of waffles. — (Laughter.; Also he believed that the housewives owed the Queensland Commissioner, Mr •H. VV. Mohsbv, a great debt of gratitude for Ins fruit salad recipe, given by radio. He understood it was to be called the ‘Mobsbj* , Royal Nonesuch,”

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A RUMOUR CONTRADICTED.

The rumour that the band rotunda in the Grand Court at the Exhibition is to be in future at the disposal, on alternate days, of the 93rd Highlanders and the Marvel Boy Glass Blower has no foundation in fact. The Glass Blower acknowledges that such a central position would give him larger audiences, but, lie explains, his profession is such that the vibrations caused by uproarious applause would be detrimental to the delicate structures he manufactures. It must be obvious to all intelligent people that glassblowing, and drawing to almost invisible fineness, is a delicate process—an operation suitable only to the laboratory and studio, where there is, above all, security from sudden atmospheric changes. The Marvel Boy Glass Blower's stand in the Amusement Zone provides the desired conditions for the, artistic and delicate processes formed there, and the daily increasing popularity secured satisfies the Marvel Boy Glass Blower that a change of locality is inadvisable. THE CITY TRANSPORT SERVICES. TO THB EDITOR Sib,—l should like to pay a tribute to the courtesy of the Dunedin motormen and tram conductors. During my stay in your city when these men had to deal with Exhibition crowds numbering from thirty to fifty thousand, their behaviour was exemplary. My home is a rendezvous for Exhibition visitors, and all agree that the niotormen and conductors of Dunedin richly deserve a word of praise.—l am, etc., Northern Visitor. [The abover is from an Opotiki visitor. Wo have received a similar letter from a visitor from Levin. — Ed. O.D.T.]