RADIO OLYMPIA SHOULD PROVE GREAT SUCCESS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19109, 30 June 1930, Page 6

RADIO OLYMPIA SHOULD PROVE GREAT SUCCESS

This years Radio Olympia, which •will be held in the Art Gallery, will be opened by the Mayor (the Rev J. K. Archer) to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. The Olympia should be an even greater success than that held last year, when it was held m the Choral Hall. Considerable improvements have been made in wireless receivers since the last Olympia, and all these changes will be seen in the fine examples which will be on exhibition at the Art Gallery during the five days on which the Olympia will be open. This morning, the two main rooms of the building presented a busy scene In the large room men were hard at work erecting the concert platform and seating accommodation for the model studio. During the period of the exhibition, two one-hour sessions will be given nightly from this studio—B o'clock till 9, and 9.30 till 10.30—and in the interval between the sessions it is anticipated that the public will avail themselves of this opportunity to see and hear the various sets on exhibition. There will be nine exhibitors occupying bays in the smaller room, besides the Transmitters’ Association, which will have short-wave apparatus installed, and the Radio Society, which will display antiquated forms of receiving apparatus.

A feature of the opening programme to morrow night will be the appearance of Mr Harend Harris, of Sydney, who has been specially engaged for the occasion. Mr Harris will feature Jewish songs sung in Yiddish, and English songs.