Speakers on Politics

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 65, 20 September 1940, Page 8

Speakers on Politics

HARLES E. WHEELER is co-oper-ating with Dr. Leslie Lipson to give two talks in 2YA’s "Background of New Zealand" series. They are discussing politics. Last Monday, in their first talk, they covered last century. Next

Monday, September 23, at 7.40 p.m., they will come forward into this century. Mr. Wheeler is the senior member of the Parliament Press Gallery and was for many years a contributor to National Broadcasting Service programmes with talks on travel and politics. He was originally an English journalist who came to New Zealand to view at firsthand our political experiments. He remained to record them, and only returned to his homeland as a visitor to tell the story of his impressions in a series of radio talks. When in 1936 the New Zealand Parliament .made_ broadcasting history by going on the air, Mr. Wheeler temporarily left his Press Gallery seat for a place on the floor of the House. From#this position he described the election of a new Speaker,

and the remarkable change’ in the political. scene following the first appearance on the Treasury benches of a Labour Government. Dr. Lipson, whose photograph we published last week (page 24) now Professor of Political Science at Victoria University College, was educated at Balliol, Oxford, and graduated with a double first. He won many university scholarships. When he was awarded the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship he went to the U.S.A. to study political science and took a doctorate at the University of Chicago.