COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 28

COMING TALKS

Ngaruawahia, the old Maori capital, came into the news early .this year When the Maori King's house was opened in the presence of the Gover-nor-General. A recorded talk about the history of Ngaruawahia and its importance to the Maoris is to be given at 2YA tomorrow night by Mrs. Marion Hurst, who has for some years been a student of Maori history and active in Maori welfare. Recordings have been made for the N.B.S/ by delegates from various parts of the Empire to the recent Commonwealth Relations Conference in Sydney. Dr. Kalidas Nag, • one of the Indian delegates, who is a very prominent member of the P.E.N. Centre in India, has made two, one on Rabindranath Tagore, the famous Indian poet, and the second on the English language as a unifying force in India. Professor Norman McKenzie, Professor of International Law at Toronto University, has spoken on Canada's place in the Empire. This talk throws valuable light on the internal difficulties in Canada, which make her problem of Imperial co-operation very different from New Zealand. A distinguished visitor to Wellington next week will be Mr. H. V. Hodson, formerly on the staff of the "Economist," at present editor of the "Round Table," and a regular commentator on international affairs for the 8.8.C. Mr. Hodson is to speak at 2YA on Thursday evening, October 13, on "The Future of Population and Migration," and it is expected that he will make recorded talks as well. The series of six talks by Mr. Leon Gotz on his experiences as a planter in Malaya aroused widespread interest for the light they threw on life in the tropics and the natural history of the jungle. A second series of "Leaves from a Planter's Notebook" is to be broadcast from 4YA beginning on Thursday of next week. i