A message from the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, Mr. W. J. Jordan, will be included in a special New Zealand Day broad-cest from Daventry in Transmission 1 today at 945 am. GMT (1745 local time) Mr. Jordan's address will be preceded at 9.10 am, GMT by Variety featuring New Zealand sttists, and at 9.30 am. GMT by Hubert Carta, the New Zealand tenor, in a recital of folk-songs from New Zealand and Australia. The broadcast will open at 815 am. (16.15 local time) with a programme by the BBC Empire Orchestra. The High Commissioner, whom listeners heard in a similar broadcast last year, is expected to speak for about a quarter of an hour. Mr. Jordan took up his appointment in London in 1936, and in 1937 was appointed Chairman of the Imperial Economic Committee. The four songs of the New Zealand Maoris which Hubert Cana is to sing will be having their first broadcast performance. Carta is a keen student of Maori legends end has put nine of them into English verse. In "Hoea te Waka," the Iret item in his recital, he will give the actual cries used by the Maoris to set the rhythm of the song From "Utcheter"
"The Microphone at Large" will come to rest at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, early in February, and as in previous broadersts of this type, Daventry listeners will hear a description of the place and talks by a number of interesting local people. One of the leading firms making agricultural implements and machinery for export to the Empire quarters in Uttoxeter, and when id Gretton, who arranges these programmes, first visited the town he found the firm busy on next summer's deliveries for the Austra-lion market. This industry will be represented in the programme as well as the other local occupations of alabaster quarrying and dairying. Uttoxeter is an excellent example of the pitfalls to be encountered in the pronunciation of certain English place Uttoxeter (toxeter" names.—Form include "Uxter and "Utchete and there may be others. The BBC does not venture to lay down inz, but favours the first Greek Broadcasts Greece is, at long last, to have its own radio broadcast stations, states a Trans-Ocean message from Athens, It is reported that an agreement has now been signed between the Government of Greece and the German "Telefunken Company for Wireless Telegraphy." A network of modern radio transmission stations is to be erected, including a 100-kilowatt station and a short wave transmitter in Athens and two smaller ones at Salonika and Corfu. A short wave transmitter. is also to broadcast on directional beam to Australia and to the United States. On completion, the stations will become the Property €f the Greek Government, which in turn will hand over the rights of
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