COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 26

COMING TALKS

Mr. James Thorn, M.P., chairman of the National Historical Committee, is to speak about the work of this Centennial Committee at 2YA in the news session tomorrow (Friday) evening, The Rugby football season will be starting in a week's time, and among those who are preparing for it are referees. There was a conference the other day about the interpretation of

rules and the decisions of this New Zealand conference will be important for all footballers. With a view to spreading this knowledge among players and referees, Mr. J. S. King, president, of the Wellington Referees' Association, and a referee in international matches, will give a talk at 2YA in the news session on Saturday evening. Mr. King will explain the new interpretations. He will give another talk at the end of next week.

This week's talk in the "Job of Work" series at 2YA (tonight) will be a conversation between a householder and a postman. The letter-c ; r^r will say something about his day;/ work and give some interesting tixi is about the service generally, and especially the human side of it.

The Island of Corfu, the principal island in the lonian group, has been in our news lately in connection with the Italian seizure of Albania. Corfu is a most historical place and of great importance in the strategy of the Mediterranean. At 2YA on Saturday evening in the news session there will be a talk on this part of the world by Mr. Marc T. Green, a well-known and much-travelled American correspondent. Mr. Green was in Wellington for a few days this week, and the National Broadcasting Service took the opportunity of getting him to. make recordings of some travel talks, including his impressions of Corfu.

The Bill introduced in England recently to amend the penal system is the most important for many years. It greatly extends the policy of trusting the offender and makes important changes in the prison system. This is to be explained in a talk tomorrow evening in the news session at 3YA by Mr. C. N. R. Mackie.

An important examination of the relations between employers and workmen in England begins at 3YA this evening when Mr. N. S. Woods will give the first of a series of talks on his experiences in England as a student of industrial life. Mr. Woods will discuss the relations between employer and employed in the conduct of the business and the improvement of the wage-earner's condition. He will give some particulars about the welfare work conducted by employers and the growing disposition to establish works committees and conduct business on a basis of mutual consultation and cooperation.