"WIDE SYMPATHIES"
Tribute to Director of Broadcasting
A high tribute was paid to the Director of tbe National Broadcastiug Sorvice, Professor J. Slielley, by oue oi tlie visiting educationists, Sir Percy Meadon, Director of Education for Lancashire, when interviewed iu Christchurch. "New Zealand is very fortunate indeed in having a noted educatioiiist such as Professor Shelley as Director of Broadcastiug, " Sir Percy Meadon said "We belleve him to be a man of 'wide sympathies and imagination, who will be fully alive to the possibilities and various needs and social aspirations of the pedple, not' only supplying them witli tlieir requireinents, but leading them to " a,sk for ' more. - "Tlie eoiitrol ,of broadcastiug is a very difficult task," he added, "and the suiting of iiidividual tastes is extremely liard. • It mean's that people have to bo' taught tlie art of discriminate listening, whieli is a techuique yet to be developed." ' One of tbe eliief diseouragefheuts was that tlrose person s who waited to praise rarely • if ever, rcuched tlie point of writing and expressiiig tlieir approva] ; but tlie disgruntied people wbo wished to grumble invariably wrote in.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 6
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