TO-NIGHTS BROADCAST

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1928, Page 3

TO-NIGHTS BROADCAST

•WIRELESS PROGRAMMES. Details of the programmes to be sent out by the New Zealand and Australian broadcasting stations this afternoon and evening are as follow: — NEW ZEALAND STATIONS. IYA Auckland. —3 p.m., afternoon session—selected studio items; 4, literary selection, by Mr. Culford Bell; 6, children’s session. Uncle Tom; 7.15,- talk, by Mr. F. E. Powell; 7.30, news and reports; 8, chimes, concert by Auckland Artillery Band—Overture, band, “Lustpiel”; contralto eolo, Miss Phyllis Hazel, “Hindoo Song”; fantasia; band, “Abyssinian Expedition”; baritone solo, Mr. Frank Sutherland, “Less Than the Dust”; selection, Auckland Artillery Band, “Le Prophete Selection”; vocal duet, the Haz-ell-iSutherland Duo, “O Lovely Night”; novelty, band, “Carmeneita”; contralto solo, Miss Phyllis Hazell, “Omio Firnando,” from “Roberto le Diable”; relay of orchestral selections from Rialto Theatre; weather forecast, selection, band, “To-night’s the Night”; 'baritone solo, Mr. F. Sutherland, “Il Balen,” from “H Trovatore”; Auckland Artillery Band, "Bohemian Suite,” (1) “The Appeal,” (2) “The Caravan,” (3) “The Tarantella”; vocal duet, Hazell-Sutherland Duo, ‘‘The Voyagers”; selection, band, selections from “The Mikado”; march, band, “Honest Toil March”; a thought; 10.4, close down. 2YA Wellington.—Silent day. 3YA Christchurch.—7.3o p.m., news and reports; 8, chimes, relay of orchestral selections from Grand Picture Theatre, f-ondon travelogue concert by Mr. A. G. Thompson, 8.A., and his quartette, in old songs at Old London places, with dialogue introducing each locality. 4YA Dunedin.—'Silent Day. AUSTRALIAN STATIONS. 2BL Sydney.—From 10.30 p.m- atudi ° concert of vocal, instrumental and ban music, followed by relay of dance items from Romano’s. 4QG Brisbane.—From 10.30 p.m., a jazz night. Between dances items by 4QG artists. 3LO Melbourne—From 10-30 p-m-, studio concert, with items *by the Malvern. Tramways Band; dance music from 1.15 a.m.

WEATHER IN JANUARY 'exceptionally DRY CONDITIONS. Bj Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 6. The Government Meteorologist has supplied the following notes on the weather for January, 1928. The past month has been notable for the exceptionally dry conditions experienced over the whole of the Dominion. The deficiency of rainfall is most serious in districts with a westerly aspect, following as it does on a dry December. No vigorous low pressure disturbance affected any part of the New Zealand region during the course of the month. On several occasions storms developed in Australia which would normally have brought general rains to this country. In each instance, however, although some slight effect was felt, pressure changes were reduced to shallow waves by the time the disturbance crossed to this Dominion. The most important of these waves passed on the Ist and the 2nd, and on the 26th of January respectively. Each produced moderate rains in parts of the West Coast districts with scattered showers elsewhere. The dominant feature of pressure distribution has been persistence of high pressure, especially in the north. Anticyclones were actually centred over or near New Zealand on the Ist, 2nd, 4th 6th, Bth, 12th, 14th to 23rd and 29th to 31st respectively. The dry warm sunny and droughty weather experienced was the direct consequence of these anti-cyclonic conditions. The mean pressure was the highest recorded for January.

In Wellington, on the whole, there has been a relative absence of wind, but between the 16th and 19th, while a rather intense anti-cyclone lay across the South Island, strong easterly winds blew over the North Island frequently reaching gale force in the far north, and causing showery weather in the Auckland Peninsula. The month has been the driest January on record in Southern Auckland, Taranaki and parts of the Manawatu, Nelson and Marlborough districts. At the end of the month, owing to the previous plentiful growth of feed, the effects of the drought had not in general been severely felt. In large parts of the North Island, however, especially in the central and western portion, milk returns had fallen off considerably. Elsewhere, although pastures were becoming parched, compensations were provided in the satisfactory maturing of grain and fruit crops, and the season has been a good one. Should rain fall by the middle of February, however, many districts will suffer severely.