In Their Own Words
HE popular Portraits trom Life series on the National stations’ Wednesday morning Women’s Session link will be continued on April 27 with a programme about Oliver Duff. After a long career in journalism, Mr. Duff is now a farmer in the Lansdowne Valley, Canterbury. He was born in Waitahuna Gully, Otago, in 1883, was educated in the South Island. and later taught schoo] himself there for ten years. He then worked on various South Islatrd papers, becoming editor of the Christchurch Press and later founding his own North Canterbury Gazette. In 1938 he edited the National Centennial Publications, and from 1939 to 1949 was editor of The Listener. Other: subjects in the Portraits from Life series in May and June will be Sir Carl Berendsen, a former New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, and A, H. Reed, the well-known writer, publisher and traveller in little-known parts of New Zealand. Sir Carl Berendsen is Sydney-born, but was educated in New Zealand for law. His public life was at first concerned with industrial matters, and from there he moved to External Affairs, being Secretary of New Zealand’s War Cabinet until 1943. He was High Commissioner in Australia before taking up his American post.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 23
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206In Their Own Words New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 23
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