PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAMMES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 8

PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAMMES

A Philosopher WE'RE inclined to think that philoso- ! phers and their kind belong to the days of the ancient Greeks, and it’s a shock to meet one in modern life and find that he’s not a hoary old man with long white whiskers, walking about with his head in the clouds. In actual fact,

many of our philosophers to-day are comparatively young men with their feet firmly planted on solid earth. Such a one -is Dr. J. N. Findlay, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. Dr. Findlay is a former South African *Rhodes Scholar. He took his M.A. at Oxford and-his Ph.D. at Graz in Austria, famous for its university. For some time he was lecturer in philosophy at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, a position he held at a time when feeling between the Afrikaans and the English "was running very high. Dr. Findlay took up the chair of Philosophy at the University of Otago six years ago. Last year he "went on a world-tour to study philosophi-

cal problems in U.S.A., Germany, Scandinavia and England. He has the fortunate ability of being able to talk on the most profound and learned topics in a light and airy way that makes them easily understandable by the layman. If you don’t

believe that any philosopher is capable of doing this, listen-in for yourself to Dr. Findlay from 4YA Dunedin next Tuesday night at 7.30 p.m. His subject is "A Philosopher Surveys Scientific Methods." Agricultural Topics N the second and fourth Thursdays of every month, Canterbury Agricultural College broadcasts from 3YA Christchurch talks on farming topics.

Here are brief notes on the experts giving these talks, whom you have already heard or will hear in the near future at 7.35p.m. on Thursday evenings: Widely known in stock-breeding circles throughout the Dominion for his knowledge in the breeding of sheep, cattle and pigs is P. G. Stevens, Dip.Agr., Lecturer in Animal Husbandry at Canterbury Agricultural College. He has a wide personal experience of live stock farming, and while he was in charge of the animal breeding and stock work at the Feilding Agricultural College, he

gained for this institution a high reputation as a stock breeding centre. The Supervisor of the Canterbury District Pig Council, H. McIntosh, is officer in charge of the pig improvement work in the Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson and Westland areas.

Colin How, consulting officer of the N.Z. Dairy Board for the South Island is one of the small band of men selected by the board this year to provide an essential service to farmers in the breeding of dairy cattle under the recently instituted National Herd Improvement Plan of the board. Vance Hannah is stud shepherd at Canterbury Agricultural College, and he is well acquainted with the practical problems of sheep improvement.