"THE CHANGING WORLD"

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 8

"THE CHANGING WORLD"

Winter Course Talks at 3YA HE CHANGING WORLD is the over-all title chosen by Station 3YA for the Winter Course talks this year. These talks begin on Monday, June 10, at 9.15 -p.m., and the attention of listeners is drawn to the change in day and time. In recent years 3YA has broadcast Winter Course talks at 645 p.m. on Wednesdays, but owing to rearrangement of programmes this period is no longér available. The series The Changing World will be opened on June 10 by A. J. Danks, M.A., Lecturer in Economics at Canterbury University College. He will give two talks, entitled "Speaking of Economics." In the first he will discuss the general, and in the second, the New Zealand problem. These will be followed by two talks on another question of the

hour-atomic energy. The speaker this time will be C. D. Ellyett, M.Sc... Lecturer in Physics at Canterbury University College, who was in the United States when the atomic bomb was being developed. During the war Mr. Ellyett was employed as instructor in radar for the Army and Air Force. In 1942 he was appointed Scientific Director of ionsspheric work, and in 1943 was sent to Australia to do research in this subject. The next year he went to the United States as one of two New Zealand representatives to the International Radio Propagation Conference. Mr. Ellyett is to go to England shortly to study atomic physics. Next there will be a series of talks, organised by L. W. McCaskill, M. Agric. Sc., of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, on Agriculture in a Changing World. Among the tentative titles of these talks, which will be given by the staff of the college, are "From Hunter to Husbandman," "Patterns in Mother Earth," "From Bent Stick to Tractor Piough," and "New Plants for Old."