TOUR OF ZB STATIONS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 14

TOUR OF ZB STATIONS

SOMETHING different in tours will be conducted next month by Women’s Programmes of the NZBS Commercial Division. Starting with a broadcast from 4ZB at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, February 7, Josephine $Schain, International President of the ~Pan-Pacific Women’s Association, will make a speaking tour of six New Zealand centres. These will include three of the smaller centres which don’t usually have a chance of hearing such a distinguished speaker. The tour will make it possible for many women who could not attend the recent Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in Christchurch to hear Miss Schain, and at each place she visits she will meet women’s organisations as well as making broadcasts. Recordings taken at these meetings will later be broadcast in Women’s Hour pro‘grammes from Commercial stations. | | Since about the middle of last year Miss Schain has visited many countries in the Pacific and near-by areas-India, Pakistan, Siam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Formosa, Japan, Malaya and Australia. After spénding long periods in some countries (for instance, about two months in India), meeting women and staying at their homes, she is able to give an up-to-date account of life in these countries. Well known in America as a lecturer and student of international relations.

Miss Schain has attended a number of big international conferences in the past 20 years. She is the official consultant at United Nations for the Liaison Committee of Women’s International Organisations, which represents 14 women’s organisations in America. Following her Dunedin broadcast, Miss Schain will be heard from 2ZB at 3.15 p.m. on February 13; 2ZA at 11.45 a.m. on February 15; 2XG on February 17; 1ZB at 3.15 p.m. on February 20; and 1XN on February 21. Times for the Gisborne and Whangarei broadcasts hdve not yet been decided.