Notable Premiers
| \JOT every New Zealand Prime Minister has claims to greatness, and it would be hard to find general agreement about those who have, but Vogel, Seddon, Massey and Savage-who are discussed in a new series of NZBS talks /_-are certainly four who have left their mark. Vogel’s claim to greatness, says -R. M. Burdon in the first of these talks, ‘rests not so much upon what he placed in the statute books as upon the tradition he has handed on-a tradition of self-reliance, and a scorn for the policy of drift or laissez-faire that derives in no small measure from the. abounding faith he never failed to show in the power of nations to shape rey own destiny. Dr, G. H. Scholefield in his ‘tatk on Seddon gives a picture of him not only as a policy-maker but as a man-the sort of man who would. end a day’s journey from, Christchurch ~ to. Greymouth near midnight with half'a dozen deputations yet to» be. heatd (and for the Press 10,000 words still to be telegraphed!) These two talks from Four Prime Ministers; which will be broadcast first from 3YA at 8.45 p.m. this Friday (May 6) and at 8.44 p.m. on Friday, May 13, will be following in’ succeeding weeks by Leicester Webb.on W. F. Masséy and Professor F. L. W. Wood on M. J. Savage.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 18
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227Notable Premiers New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 18
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