Is This New Zealand's Golden Age?
3YA’s Winter discussion programmes open with a provocative question
[5 this New Zealand’s Golden Age? Few listenefs are likely to find themselves neutral when 3YA launches its Winter discussion programme with this topic at 8.30 p.m. on Friday, April 24, and argument is likely to continue in homes throughout Canterbury for a good long time after the panel goes off the air. Which is, of course, as it should be. The panel to be heard arguing this ‘question is one of two which will broadcast on alternate, weeks right up to the beginning of October. This panel will deal mainly with matters of economic, commercial and industrial importance, which will give listeners some idea of the angle from which they are likely to approach this first subject. Its members are Jean McGregor, secretary to a big Christchurch importing and manufacturing firm; A. J. Danks, lecturer in economics at Canterbury University College, who has frequently been heard in Lookout; H. G. Kilpatrick, a trade union secretary, member of the Christchurch Forensic Club, and a seasoned debater; and James Caffin, a Christchurch journalist. Mr. Caffin will chair the panel’s first discussion. Well-Informed Circle, as the programme is to be called, will continue on May 1, when,the second panel, concerned mainly with social and humanistic problems, will be heard discussing modern social etiquette. Donald’ Bain. who will be in the chair on this occasion, was a journalist for many years and has been heard in 3YA’s Mainly for Women session discussing the background to the overseas news. He is now secretary to the Overseas League in Christchurch. With him on the second panel are Dr. Ralph Winterbourn, lecturer in psychology at Canterbury Uni-
versity College; Noel Gard’ner, a salesman with a Christchurch importing "firm; and Mildred Scott, a housewife. who has also been heard in Mainly for Women. Some of the topics which the first panel will discuss are: Immigration-Is it building up too slowly or too rapidly? Are we spending more than we can afford on luxuries? What pressures are Britain, the United States, and Australia exerting on us, and what will be their effect? Equal pay for women and men: Is it economically possible and socially desirable? Other topics for discussion by the second panel include>
The family dinner table-Reading desk or open forum? Are our schools producing a new generation with sound artistic taste? Are we over-organising ourselves socially? War service overseas -Has it given New Zealand men a different sense of values from that of N.Z. women? Have our social morals. particularly those of adolescents, begun to slip? Father at home-Has he any place there now? From 2YA at 8.30 en on Monday April 20, a panel will be heard discussing adult education-what is the need for it, to what extent is that need being met and how could it be improved? H. R. C. Wild will be in the chair, and other members of the panel will be W J. Mountjoy, Jnr., Mrs. T. J. Cotter, P. Martin Smith and D. I. Macdonald.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 9
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