NEW ZEALAND BRAINS ABROAD
Review Of Our Achievements HERE has been much discussion of recent years of New Zealand’s export of brains, and it has been complained that we do not provide enough opportunities in our own country for our brilliant sons and daughters. Of course this is a small country and it may be argued that we cannot possibly hope to retain anything like the intellectual pick of our people. However this may be, it is undeniable that a large number .of New Zealanders have distinguished themselves abroad, a _ far larger number than is generally recognised. — Most people know something about a few New Zealanders at the top of the tree-Rutherford, Katherine Mansfield, David Low, and one or two others, but there are many more who have won distinction, and sometimes fame, overseas; and as part of its Centennial programme the NBS has arranged a series of talks on this subject. The series, which has been prepared by Bernard Magee and Major F. H. Lampen, does not claim to be exhaustive, but a good deal of research has been given to it, and numbers of New Zealanders in many walks of life are dealt with. They have distinguished themselves as _ doctors, teachers, architects, soldiers and sailors, engineers, writers, explorers, artists, and so on. Who, for instance, was the New Zealender who won a remarkable double distinction at Cambridge, was invited to one of the foremost Universities in America, and became a leading figure in the American educational world? Who built an aerial railway in the Andes? Who built a road in Kurdistan and wrote a book about it? Who made remarkable advances in facial surgery? Who won the Rome Prize in architecture? Who distinguished himself in polar exploration? Who rose to admiral’s rank in the Navy? Who governed a province in India? If you can’t answer these questions and you are interested in this subject, as you ought to be, listen to the series of eight talks now being broadcast from 2YA on Sunday afternoons at 3.0.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 25
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