ROOSEVELT AND GREY
The famous "Teddy" Roosevelt was a lover ot birds. When he went to England he asked Sir Edward Grey to arrange for him to hear certain English birds. Grey who was an authority on birds and their songs, told Rosevelt that if he returned in the third week of September he would be able to hear all the birds mentioned, save one. "That one you won’t be able to hear because you are over 40 and after 40 the ear loses its keenness and cannot catch that bird's note," said Sir Edward.
How many people realise that this deterioration sets in with everyone. How many more realise that there are in Wanganui alone over 4000 persons, from children to aged persons, who endure impaired hearing? asked Mr. Hugh C. Jenkins, when addressing the Wanganui Junior Chamber of Commerce on the work of the League for the Hard of Hearing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 26 February 1947, Page 7
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