NOTED CANADIAN LECTURER

Southland Times, Issue 22895, 21 May 1936, Page 7

NOTED CANADIAN LECTURER

THE REV. DAVID LANG. VISIT TO INVERCARGILL. The Rev. Dr. Lang, the eminent Canadian lecturer, will arrive in Invercargill on Wednesday, May 27, and depart on the following Friday. While in Invercargill he will give a lecture at the Southland Boys’ High School and also one in the Victoria Hall. He will also address members of the Rotary Club at a luncheon to be held in his honour.

A man of outstanding personality and ability, Dr. Lang, arrived in Auckland on May 11. He is on a lecture ’tour of New Zealand and Australia and he has delivered a series of lectures on Canada in the main centres of the Dominion. Each lecture is fully illustrated, for which purpose Dr. Lang brought a number of the latest moving pictures and coloured slides. Illustrated lectures on Canada by eminent citizens of that country are all too few in New Zealand, and the opportunity to hear this gifted speaker should be availed of. The Rev. William Gilmour, of Wellington, who spent 25 years in Canada, speaks of Dr. Lang as one of Canada’s distinguished men, whose lectures should do much towards creating a more helpful understanding between the peoples of the two Dominions. The visit of this gifted lecturer has given the people of New Zealand a unique opportunity of receiving first-hand information on the current problems and achievements of that great Dominion. All lectures are free and they will be of a highly educational value. Dr. Lang will spend a month in New Zealand before proceeding to Sydney on June 8.