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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1939, Page 4

On the ship on which Miss Betty Hannam travelled to England, a baby one day could not be made to sleep. The mother told Miss Hannam that the child missed the sound of the wireless. “One wonders what effect continual music will have on the modern child,” said Miss Hannam in an address in Christchurch to the Society for Imperial Culture. “Is it not likely to create a spirit of unrest, and a lack of disposition for silence and reflectiveness as well as a lack of concentration? Some modern babies are reared with tne radio turned on practically continually, so that it becomes just a pleasant sound, without intellligent listening. It is not merely listening. but how we listen, that counts. Some say they can criticise music on the radio while working, but that is a different view from that of the Oriental. who studies concentration so much.”