The Cheerful Giver
"(CHEERFUL GIVER!" Who was the cheerful giver? Some doctor who married a Russian woman so devoted to him that she had to write his biography. Thus, with the idle reflections provoked by a curiosity not great enough to carry me into the book, I passed it by. But the Cheerful Giver was Harold Williams, a Methodist parson who first had a circuit somewhere in Taranaki, where because of his interest in study he was regarded by the cow cockies as a bit of a crank (reminds me of the time I arrived on a farm with a suitcase full of books and was somewhat contemptuously asked if I could milk), and who later became a top-flight journalist interested in Russia and in the constitutional advances which were too slow there to avert the revolu- -
tion. And so this NZBS -programme, written by O. A. Gillespie and heard lately over 3YA, will have introduced many of us to a brilliant but little-known fellow countryman. It seems extraordinary that one as astonishing im his abilities as Williams-who, learned a new language when he wished to relax, knew 58 when he died, and was a journalist so highly regarded in Great Britainshould be comparatively unknown in his
own country.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 10
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210The Cheerful Giver New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 10
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