Diverse Approach
OU never know quite what you’re in for when you listen to a talks series with several speakers, The talks officer’s bright idea transfers into their minds in diverse ways. M. H. Holcroft gave his own philosophical approach to The N.Z. Way in Literature (first broadcast from 2YC) talking about encircling seas, waiting hills, deepening streams-here called "agventurous roads": the recognisable Holcroft world, which has_ almost become the recognisable New Zealand world, though some deny it. A pre-Holcroft New Zealand is almost unimaginable. But for Dr. J. H. Robb, talking on Social Welfare, it was be damned to the philosophy of it. He said we hadn’t any. He gave only a sketchy account of the subject in general, reserving his time for a strong plea for the proper selection and training of social workers. "Overseas," he said, "a person is appointed to a post because he is qualified; here he is assumed to be qualified because he has been appointed. It is as if he were appointed without training to a job which required him to do surgery and was called a surgeon because he was in that job." This so badly needed saying that I was glad to hear it, even if it didn’t entirely fit
the series.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 21
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213Diverse Approach New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 21
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