B.B.C. Bird Watcher Not Satisfied With Successor
LONDON. Dec 19.- The 8.8.C.’s official bird watcher and recorder is “not satisfied’ ’with Ihe way his successor has been chosen. He is 69-year-old Dr Ludwig Koch and his successor is 29-year-old Mr. E. A. Sims, a schoolmaster who becomes the 8.8.C.’s “resident ornithologist.” “I do not know this man and I was not consulted,” said Dr. Koch. “1 was told sex era I months ago that the 8.8. C. would not renew my contract. They wanted a younger man. 1 want Io make il quite clear that I have not retired and will continue with my bird watching and recording for the 8.8. C. for radio diffusion franchise or anybody else who wants it.” Dr Koch’s recordings of bird and animal sounds have made him famous. - (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent).
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 December 1950, Page 5
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