NZBS GARDEN EXPERTS—5
T’S been a long "three weeks’ in broadcasting for A. M. Linton, 1YZ’s Gardening Expert. Soon after 1YZ opened in 1949 he was asked to provide a gardening programme for "two or three weeks." For the first two years 1YZ presented him only as the Gardening Expert; but the interest in the man behind the broadcast was so great that the station was asked many times to identify him and eventually it did so. The popularity of his Saturday morning session has never waned, and his ever-increasing weekly mail brings samples and questions from all parts of the Bay of Plenty. Mr. Linton has appeared continuously before the 1YZ microphone, apart from a short break when he was nominated as a candidate for the Rotorua mayoralty. Mr. Linton’s love of gardening finds expression in a fine vegetable and flower garden, and as if that were not enough he puts in a good deal of time breaking in five acres of land in the Rotorua district. Besides gardening, his interests include angling, and he is also a Rugby
enthusiast. Some years ago he was active as a player and had a place in a New Zealand Universities Fifteen. Mr. Linton is chief surveyor with the Maori Affairs Department at Rotorua and Mayor of Rotorua-two jobs which take him to many parts of the Bay of: Plenty.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 893, 14 September 1956, Page 21
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