TALKS FOR THE WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 26

TALKS FOR THE WEEK

The talk on the future.of medicine in the "Changing World" series at SYA which'was set down for Monday night last is to.be broadcast this evening, at 7.40. Two members of the B.M.A. will be questioned by a layman.

Mr. Pat Lawlor, the well-known journalist, and secretary of the New Zealand ' P.E.N. Centre, recently' paid a visit to Sydney and saw a good deal of the literary world there. Mr. Lawlor is talking about his trip at 2YA this'evening.

The survival of the Maori race will be considered in a talk at 2YA tomorrowi evening by a speaker who has had exceptional opportunities for studying! the question. He is Mr. C. M. Bennett, son of the Bishop of Aotearoa.

We all have pet aversions, and it would be interesting to ascertain how many listeners agree with the speakers in the series on this subject at 3YA. Mr. Allen Curnow is to speak tomorrow night on "Going Places," an American expression which he evidently regards as a name for restlessness. . . ■ , ■ ■ ' ; :

We are getting quite a lot of broadcast views about New Zealand these days. This week 3YA had a talk by an Australian on New Zealand and it is to be followed next Monday by. the views of a Chinese. The same evening Mrs. Lily, Krug, a German travelling writer who' recently visited this country, is to broadcast from' IYA on her impressions of. New Zealand and Australia. Mrs. Krug is passing through Auckland on her way ,to America.

The days' of the silent screen, close to us in time but far away when measured by development, willbe recalled in a talk at 2YA on Monday next by Mr. L. D. Austin, the Wellington musician and writer. Mr. Austin was connected with the musical side of the cinema for many years and is well equipped to deal with the humours of the days when the cinema as a purveyor of fiction was new to the world.

A good deal of New Zealand history should be dug up for the broadcast debate on Wednesday next, between Victoria University College and Canterbury University College, for the subject will be "That the North Island has contributed more,to the advancement- of New Zealand than the South Island." Victoria, speaking from 2YA, will take the affirmative, and Canterbury, from 3YA, will take the negative. For one .thing it will be interesting to see what the debaters mean by advancement.