Australian Short Wave

Broadcast May 8-May 28.

AUSTRALIAN National Short Wave

Programme, broadcast from Mel

bourne, Victoria, on 31.34 metres for

listeners in the Western Pacific. Call

sign: VLR.

P.M. Daily Weekdays

12.35 Recorded Music. 1.00 Time Signal, and News Bulletin. 1.05 Interstate Weather. 1.15 Music. 3.00 (Monday, Tuesday, and Friday) Broad cast to Schools. 3.20 (Tuesday and Friday) Classic Music. 5.00 Close (Monday and Wednesday, 5.15). 6.30 Comment by “The Watchman.” 6.45 (Tuesday excluded) Sporting News. 7.00 (Saturday excluded) News, Markets, and Weather for North Australia, 7.20 Overseas News Service. 7.30 Queensland and North Australian News. 7.40 (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Talk. 7,40 (Tuesday and Thursday) News In French 8.50 (Usually) Musical Programme. 10.30 Australasian News Service. 10.50 Musical Programme. 11.30 Close.

P.M. Every Saturday

12.45 Music. 1.15—5.15 Description of current sporting and athletic events, interspersed with music. 6.30 Markets Summary. 7.10 New Zealand Mail Bag. 7.35 Sporting Highlights of the Week. 10.50 Australasian Mail Bag. 11.00 Dance Music. 12.00 Close.

P.M. Every Sunday

6.00 Musical Programme by various State Orchestras. 6.80 Talk on International Affairs. 6.50 News Bulletin. 7.00 “Alice in Orchestralla”. 7.30 Recordings of Overseas Artists. 8.30 Story. 10.15 News. 10.30 Close. (Times given are Australian Eastern Stand ard —10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.)

May 8 To May 28.

May 8 (Sun.) —6.35 p.m. Talk on Drama Week; 7.30 Orchestral Hour—George Szell, visiting celebrity conductor; 8.50 New Note Octet; 9.15 Play.

May 9 (Mon.) —8 p.m. Seriat—“lnto the Light”: 8.30 “At the Sign of the Maison Rouge”; 9.30 Travel Letter; 10.50 Military Band.

May 10 (Tues.) —3 p.m. “Everyday Science and Nature Study”; 8 Recital by Alexander Kipnis, Russian Bass; 9 Play; 10 Harry Bloom’s Dance Band.

May 11 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Bendigo Races; 8 Request Items; 8.40 “Emma and ’Erbert”; 9 Play; 10 Light Orchestra.

May 12 (Thurs,)—l.ls p.m. Bendigo Races; 8 “The Play’s the Thing”; 9.15 Silver Sextet; 9.45 “Chorus, Gentlemen, Please!”; 10 Talk on World Affairs.

May 13 (Fri.) —3 p.m. “Adventures in Mu sic”; 8 Jim Davidson’s A.B.C. Dance Band; 8.30 Organ Recital; 9 Play; 9.30 Choral Fantasias.

May 14 (Sat.)—l.3o p.m. Ascot Races; 8 Alex ander Kipnis (Bass); 9 Play; 10 Plano Recital; 11 Dance Music.

May 16 (Sun.) —6.30 p.m. “Science in the News”; 8.50 Vocal Recital; 9.30 “Around the Organ With Sattkey”.

May 16 (M0n.)—1.15 p.m. Organ Recital; 8 Serial; 8.30 “At the Sign of the Maison Rouge”; 9.30 Ballad Recital; 9.40 Travel Let ter.

May 17 (Tues.)— l.ls p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Organ; 8.5 Alexander Kipnis (Bass); 9 Everyman’s Music; 10 Talk; 10.50 Military Band.

May 18 (Wed.)—l.ls p.m. Organ Recital; 1.30 Geelong Races; 8 Request Numbers; 8.40 “Emma and ’Erbert”; 9 National Military Band; 9.30 Lionel Lawson and Bessie Coleman.

May 19 (Thurs.)—l.ls p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Hammond Organ; 8 “The Play’s the Thing”; 9.15 Silver Sextet; 10 Talk on World May 20 (Fri.)—l.ls p.m. Organ Music; 8 Jim Davidson and A.B.C. Dance Band; 8.30 Des mond Tanner at the Organ; 9 Light Opera— “ Les Cloches de Cornville”.

May 21 (Sat.)—l.3o p.m. Willlamstown Races; 8 A.B.C. (Melbourne) Symphony Orchestra; 9 Play; 9.20 John Morley Quintet; 10 Special Programme.

May 22 (Sun.)—6.3o p.m. Talk—“ Memories of Rome”; 8.50 Organ Recital by Arnold Colman, with Strella Wilson, Soprano: 9.15 Recent Film Release.

May 23 (M0n.)—1.15 p.m. Organ Recital; 1.30 V.T. and R.A. Trots, at Ascot; 7.40 Talk— “ Morals”; 8 Serial; 9.30 History of Jazz; 10 Travel Letter.

May 24 (Tues.) —1.15 p.m. Organ Music; 1.30 Seymour Races; 8.10 British Musical Composi tions: 8.40 Alexander Kipnls (Bass); 9.30 Pa triotic Airs.

May 25 (Wed.) —1.15 p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Organ; 1.30 V.T. and R.A. Trots, at As cot; 8 Request Session; 9.30 Raymond Beattie and Heather Kinnaird in Solos and Duets.

May 26 (Thurs.) —1.15 p.m. Organ Recital; 1.30 Mornington Races; 7.40 Book Reviews; 8 “The Play’s the Thing”; 10.15 Harry Bloom’s Dance Band.

May 27 (Fri.) —1.15 p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Organ; 8 Dance Music; 9 Light Orchestral Programme; 9.40 Apollo Male Quartet; 10 Or gan Recital.

May 28 (Sat.) —1.15 p.m. Moonee Valley Races; 8 Symphony Hour; 9 Sketch—" The Selector’s Daughter”: 9.30 Ballad Concert.

The American cruise liner “Franconia” on a voyage round the world with 250 tourists arrived in Port Moresby, Papua, on March 17, from Java ports. She left late in the same evening for Sydney.

Mr. G. Brewer, of B.G.D. Ltd., Bulwa, N.G., reached Australia in April.