AMBROSE REEVES HARRIS

NZ Truth, Issue 1142, 20 October 1927, Page 4

AMBROSE REEVES HARRIS

Giving New Zealand A Place In the Air THE "sterner stuff" which Shakespeare urges as the admirable nucleus for ambition has had a fine vehicle for expression in Ambrose Reeves Harris, king of the air and now comfortably ensconsed on the throne of radio. He is a young man with ideas always shooting ahead of the times; shrewd, well-balanced, but rather quiet of demeanor. Nothing of his greatness has been thrust on him; he has had. to scrap among mundane things for every inch of the ground he has covered in life. Railway employee once, his restless spirjt and flair for experiment were unappeased until he had gone over to the greatest of all inventors, Thomas A. Edison. The great man saw the worth of the New Zealander, eventually appointing him assistant chief of the research department at his laboratory and giving him a splendid personal testimonial when he returned to New Zealand. Not merely has Harris worked up an exceptionally big business, but as a director of the New Zealand Broadcasting Company and also general manager, he has the splendid faculty for getting things in their order and ordering things in their place.