A Visit to Ceylon
NAN DOBSON, in charge of the Women’s Hour at 4ZA,\has spent several years in Ceylon, and recently she recorded her impressions of the island. The series of seven talks, for the Commercial Women’s Hour, started from 1XN and 2XP on February 19, and will be heard from other stations in the next four months. Miss Dobson reached Ceylon by way of the Suez Canal, and she starts her talks ‘with personal impressions of the canal, to most of us merely a name and background to events in the news. The journey down the Red Sea and her arrival at Colombo, the centre of Ceylon’s trade and a port of call for thost Suez-routed vessels, are the subject of another talk. In other talks Miss Dobson tells of the highlights of a trip around the island, her own special memories of people and _ places, and daily life in Colombo and on a tea estate at Hatton, where she spent some time: There is also a talk on the great Buddhist festivals at Kandy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 23
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176A Visit to Ceylon New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 23
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