Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 94, 10 April 1941, Page 24

Around The Nationals

| ISTENERS can be assured that G. C. Davenport, who gives the motor talks from 4YZ, knows his facts. He studied motor engineering in London before coming to New Zealand, where he is foreman of a garage and teaches motor electricity at the Southland Technical College. His talks on motoring owe their popularity to his knack of using simple language to impart technical knowledge. * * * LISTENERS to 3YA will now have an opportunity of hearing the series of 10 talks on "New Zealand Brains Abroad" which has been given from 2YA and 1YA in recent months. This | series is merely ‘called "A review of our Achievements," but in its compilation and preparation the series is something |

of an achievement in itself. The names of many scores of New Zealanders are mentioned and their work and importance are assessed and commented on, a task which must have taken the compilers, Bernard Magee and Major F. H. Lampen, considerable time and effort. . 2 3K cK . H. BOYES, M.A., who is one of the speakers in the 4YA Winter Course talks, is assistant lecturer in Education at Otago University and assistant in the Child Guidance Clinic attached to the Education Department of the University. In the clinic G. W. Parkyn, M.A., and Mr. Boyes have done excellent work for two years with children mainly from schools, but also from courts, who are sent to the clinic for mental tests of many kinds. As a resuit of these studies in educational disabilities and delinquency, it is often possible to recommend remedial treatment in the school or the home. Mr. Boyes has also had experience of broadcasting as a part-time announcer at 4YO,