WOMEN'S HOUR INTERVIEWS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 21

WOMEN'S HOUR INTERVIEWS

URING May and June commercial stations will present during their 2.30 p.m. and 11.0 a.m. Women’s Hour, three jnterviews with women, the subjects beng Care of the ed, New England Homes and: A Career Overseas. Challis Hooper, retired Matron. of the School Dental Clinic in Wellington (whose photograph appears above) recently toured. abroad and during that time studied work being done in England and Europe for the care of old people. In her interview Miss Hooper explains that although the care of the aged is a very old prob’¢n its increased importance in recent years has necessitated further study and modernised methods. According to Miss Hooper this increased need has been brought about by the rising percentage of old people in the community, due in turn to the longer life expectancy today. The five factors which, Miss Hooper explains, aggravate the difficulties of old age, are lack of adequate medical care, proper housing, good food, companionship and suitable activities. In the feature New England Homes Jean Dawson, a New Englander who married a New Zealander, points out that there is a rather unexpected link between these old American homes and

New Zealand. It lies in the fact that the whalers- who operated out of Maine and Massachusetts ports, and made their fortunes in New Zealand waters, provided the capital in many cases which built the old mansions still to be seen in the North Atlantic seaboard states. Mrs. Dawson has been heard before in Women’s Hour in a programme called 1 Came to New Zealand. The title of Brigid Haydon’s talk, A Career Overseas, is perhaps not as selfexplanatory as it at first seems, for the "overseas" refers in this case to New Zealand. Although only twenty-four, Miss Haydon already holds a post as an Assistant Secretary to the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in this country, and in this interview she tells radio audiences of her work, as well: as of her experiences in England and America. She was evacuated to the United States during the last war and in this talk makes some comments on the educational system there and in Canada. After returning to London Miss Haydon studied at Oxford before securing a position in the Commonwealth Relations Office. Rotation of these interviews on the four ZB stations, 2ZA and 1XH has already begun. In the coming week Care of the Aged will be broadcast on Monday, May 19, from 1ZB. On Tuesday, May 20, 4ZB will broadcast New England Homes, while A Career Overseas will be heard from 2ZA on Friday, May 23.