WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22505, 25 February 1935, Page 10

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES. 3YA, Christehurch.—7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 8.30: Close down. 10: Devotional service. 10.15: Selected recordings. 11: Time signals from Dominion Observatory, 11: Talk, Miss Lorna Martin, " Health and Beauty Culture." 11.15: Selected recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2 p.m:: Selected recordings. 2.30: Home Science talk. .3.: Classical music. 4: Time signals from Dominion Observatory. Light musical programme. 4.30 :■• Special weather forecast for farmers. 5: hour. 6 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 7.30 • Time signals from Dominion Observatory. 8 : Chimes. Concert programme." March, Woolston Brass Ban I Tconductor, Mr R. J. 85ta11)....8.14 : Soprano, Miss Lottie Colville. 8.20: Selection, Woolston Band. 8.28 : Record, baritone. 8.34 : Hymn, Woolston Band. 8.37: Record, baritone. 8.40: Cornet duet with band, Bandsmen R. Simpson arid R. Barber and Woolston Band Valse, Woolston Band. 8.50: Soprano, Miss Lottie Colville. 8.66: March, Woolston Band. 9: Weather forecast and station notices. 9.20 : Rftcordings-r trumpet, first and second violins, viola, 'cello, double bass, and piano. 9.40':' Bass, Mr Harison Cook (three numbers). 9.54: Record, string quartet. 10: "Music, Mirth, and Melody" (gramophone records). 10.30: Dance music. 11 : Close down. •".. . .' /".

4YA, Dunedin. —7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 8.30 : Close down. .10: Selected recordings. 10.15: Devotional service.(At intervals during the day commentaries on the play in the Plunket Shield, cricket match Otafto v. Canterbury will; be broadcast on relay from Carisbrook), 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Selected recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.30: Special weather forecast for farmers. Light musical programme. 4.45 : Sports results. 5:. Children's hour. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 8 : Chimes. Concert programme of recordings. 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.2: Talk, Mr J. T. Paul, "World Affairs." 9.20 : Further recordings. 10: Dance musk. 11 : Close down. '• • ""

Until 1895 there used to be a ship and a lighthouse on the "tails" side of all British pennies, and, according' to the latest report of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, pleas are still made for their reinstatement. Referring to the matter the Deputy Master said: "Would not the reappearance of a sail-. lng ship rather suggest contentment to rest upon our laurels? We are then met with the difficulty that a modern warship, or even the new Cunardrr, makes inappropriate mating for a classical Britannia, and a Britannia in the latest sun-bathing dress, or even in pyjamas, is unthinkable. And what about the claims of the air? Must Ba Belle Stuart (the original model for Britannia) yield pride of place to Amy?"