AROUND THE GLOBE

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19457, 22 December 1934, Page 9

AROUND THE GLOBE

CHRISTMAS BROADCAST.

INTERESTING PROGRAMMES. THE KING TO SPEAK. On Christmas Day, for the third year in succession, the British Broadcasting Corporation will broadcast a special Christmas Day programme, concluding at 3 p.m. G.M.T., with a message to the Empire from His Majesty the King, who will speak from Sandringham. The programme will be entitled “Empire Exchange, and its aim will be to give listeners throughout the Empire a vivid pictorial impression of the vast diversity of interests of their fellow-citizens in the Empire, and at the same time of the common sentiments which bind world-'wide fellowship in common allegiance. Against a background of the hymn “0 Come, All Ye Faithful," the bells of the Church of the Nativity, relayed from Bethlehem, will proclaim -the message of Christmas Day. This n J es “ sage will be. echoed by bells sounding from all parts of the British Commonwealth —in India, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and London. The whole programme will demonstrate the positjon which London now holds as the centre of the Empire’s system of communication.

Worid-wido Network. By means or the world-wide network, communication will be established with individuals in various parts of the Empire. Among them will be heard for example—Australia: A railway settler on the trans-Continental railway, an attendant at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, a drover in North Queensland, the toll keeper at Sydney Harbour Bridge, a life-saver on one of the New South Wales surf beaches, a sheep farmer in South Australia. Southern Rhodesia: A speaker from Salisbury. India: A tea planter in Southern 'lndia, an officer in the Indian Army. New Zealand: A fisherman. South Africa: Natives in a South African compound giving a loyal salute, a speaker on a Johannesburg skyscraper. Canada: A fisherman .in the Maritime Provinces, a speaker in a Canadian lumber oamp. Irish Free State: An operator at the power station on the River Shannon; a man of Aran. *

Message from King. All these people will describe the nature of their callings and the manner In which they have been spending Christmas 'Day. When the last of the distant relays is over a message from His Majesty the King at Sandringham will follow, and the programme will conclude with the ‘National Anthem. The programme is being organised by the 8.8. C. in collaboration, with the British General Post Office. Other Broadcasting organisations who will 00-operate are the following: The African Broadcasting Company, Ltd.; the Government Broadcasting Servioe, Salisbury; the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the • Canadian- Radio Broadcasting Commission; the Irish Free State Broadcasting Service; the New Zealand... Broadcasting Board; the Postmaster - General’s Department; Jerusalem; the government of India.-