(13) F. D. J. Crowle, Station Manager, 2YH, Napier

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 35, 23 February 1940, Page 10

(13) F. D. J. Crowle, Station Manager, 2YH, Napier

D. J. CROWLE, station manager at Napier’s 2YH, comes from Waimate. At St. Bede’s College, Christchurch, he started a promising academic careef, represented his school in oratory (against St. Patrick’s College, Wellington), and played in the First Fifteen. He had hoped to continue with a University education, but instead went farming at Waimate, where, during four years, he became~a well-known member of the Catholic Dramatic Club, one of the most successful competitors in the famous South Canterbury Drama League’s festivals. It was in 1932 that he started radio work, announcing in Christchurch. He liked it, and kept at it, but found time outside the studio to continue his studies and win his Master of Arts degree. He went to Napier in 1938, and has since then been station manager at Station 2YH. He is married, with a family of two. Recreations: mainly intellectual, partly gardening, partly golf, in which, he says, he has attained no heights. Although his work is now so much more closely connected with the administrative side of radio work, he still takes a keen interest in announcing and has his own ideas on the subject; one of them that New Zea- landers should speak like New Zealanders and make no futile attempts to copy other people. In the natural course of events, New Zealand, he thinks, will develop a distinctive speech out of ‘all the elements which, combined, affect English pronunciation. This process should be allowed to develop, as he thinks it inevitably would.