Australian Short Wave
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Broadcast
A NATIONAL Short Wave Programme is broad cast daily from Lyndhurst, near Melbourne, Victoria, for listeners in the Western Pacific.
Call signs: From 6.30-10.15 a.m., VLR7; from Noon-6.15 p.m., VLR7; from 6.30-11.35 p.m., VLR.
Wave Lengths: From 6.30-10.15 a.m., 25.33 metres; from 12-6.15 p.m., 25.33 metres; from 6.30-11.35 p.m., 31.32 metres. Frequencies: From 6.30-10.15 a.m., 11,840 Kcs.; from 12-6.15 p.m., 11,840 Kcs.; from 6.30-11.35 p.m., 9.580 Kcs. Power: 2 Kilowatts. Times given are Australian Eastern Standard (10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time).
WEEK DAYS.—a.m,: 6.30, Market Reports; 6.45, News; 7.15, Music; 7.45, News; 8, Music; 9.30, Story; 10, Devotional Service; 10.15, Close, p.m.: 12, Time Signal and broadcast to schools; 12.35, Essential Services; 12.50, News; 1.05, Music; 1.35, News; 4.15, News; 4.45, Music; 5.30, Young People’s Session; 6.15, Close; 6.30, Dinner Music; 7. News; 11, News; 11.15, Music; 11.35, Close.
SATURDAYS.—Same as daily programme, ex cept between 1.05 p.m. and 5.15 p.m., when description of current sporting and athletic events is given, Interspersed with music. Close at 11.35 p.m.
SUNDAYS.—a.m.: 6.45, News; 7, Music; 9, News; 9.30, New Releases (Recorded); 10.15, Book Reviews; 10.30, Famous Singers; 11, Divine Ser vice. p.m.: 12.15, Great Violinists; 12.50, News; 12.55, Music; 3, Musical Quizz; 4.15, News; 4.45, Music; 6.15, OIOS'S; 6.30, “Island Nights Enter tainment; 7, News and Commentary; 7.30 BBC News; 10.30, Music; 11, Close.
April 1 To April 12
Apr. I (Tues.)—B p.m. Opera; 9.15 National Military Band; 10 Sydney String Quartet.
Apr. 2 (Wed.)—B p.m. “Out of the Bag”; 9 Phyllis Macdonald Sextet; 9.30 Medical Talk -9.45 Harold Williams: 10 Modern Compositions.’
Apr. 3 (Thurs.) —8 p.m. Melbourne Concert Orchestra: 9 Ballad Music; 9.30 ABC Saxophone Quartet; 10 Play—“ These People of England”
Apr. 4 (Fri.)—B p.m. Play; 9.15 Salon Septet; 10 Variety Programme. a ™ pr ‘ 5 (Sat.) —1.10 p.m. Race Descriptions; 9.30 Neville Cardus; 9.40 Military Band and Wireless Chorus.
Apr, 6 (Sun.)—B p.m. Talk—Neville Cardus; 9 Ballad Concert; 10 Australian Artists.
Apr. 7 (Mon.)—B p.m. “Merry Go Round”; 9 Melbourne Wireless Chorus; 9.30 Serial Waltzing Matilda”; 10 Montague Brearlev En semble.
Apr. 8 (Tues.)—B p.m. String Orchestra; 8.40 Sydney Wireless Chorus; 9.30 Talk; 9.45 Jim Davidson’s ABC Dance Band.
Apr. 9 (Wed.)—B p.m. “Out of the Bag”- 9 Two Piano Recital; 9.30 Medical Talk; 945 , n H ° w „ l J Sm g Song” (Harold Williams): 10.30 Modern Compositions.
Apr. io (Thurs.)—B p.m. Sydney Concert Orchestra: 9 “Songs of Eastertide”; 9.30 “Mv Favourite Programme”: 10 Play—“ The Woman Mary .
Apr. II (Fri.)—B p.m. “Szigeti”; 8.15 Verdi’s Requiem ’ by Melbourne Philharmonic Society „ Apr - 12 <Sat.)—B pm - s y dne y Symphony Orchestra; 9.30 Neville Cardus; 9.40 Military Band and Wireless Chorus.
Rev. Father Lyons, of the Sacred Heart Mission, arrived in Australia recently
from Rabaul, New Guinea, to undergo
medical treatment. He has been suffer ing from ill-health for some time.
M. Henri Sautot, Governor of New Caledonia, has received information through the British Government that his son, Raymond, of whom he had had no news for eight months, recently was with the Free French forces at Brazzaville, Middle Congo, French Equatorial Africa, where he was assisting in rallying the French people to General de Gaulle.
Mr. George Robinson died at Wau New Guinea, recently, from blackwater fever. He was 45 years of age, and had been employed as a mechanic and fit ter by the Wau Carrying Co. for the past six months. Mr. Robinson served in the Great War and was awarded several decorations. He was married only quite
recently.