CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 21, 9 December 1927, Page 15

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

SUNDAY EVENING AT 8YA | SOME REMARKABLE TRIBUTES. The Sunday evening children’s services which were inaugurated under Uncle Sam some montfis ago at 3YA have been wonderfully suc: cessful with people of all ages. Letters of appreciation are frequent. The foltowing are worth quoting :- A Great Blessing. Mr. D. Macpherson, manager of the Benevolent Institution, Caversham, Dunedin, writes to Uncle Sam: "It is with a great deal of pleasure I write you with reference to your Sunday evening children’s services, As_ themanager of the above institution, I desire on behalf of the inmates to thank you, and also all the children, who from: time to time take part. You camhard‘ly reglisé the blessings that are sent .out, and the benefit derived therefrom.: The hymns, soles, and the talks andJ Bible readings are very much appreciated, and I feel that I must write. you, so as to thank you and also to convey -aur sincere thanks for all the} efferts put forth. It reflects great credit on you and also the children. Thank you all," , Young Man of 70. Mr. Jobn Tiadfield, of 38 Strickland Street, Sydenham, describing himself as "a young one of three score years and ten,’?? writes to Uncle Sam: "Being unable to attend the evening church service, I have become a constant listener-in at your children’s services, and I desire to express my great appreciation of the whole service. The singing of the little folk is really fine, and, I am ‘sure, affords much pleasure to a Jarge circle of listeners-in, the solos with choruses "being specially nice. ‘fo those who train the children and to yourself for the excellent little service given io us each Sunday deserves our hearty thanks." What Radio Means to the Deaf. Mr. Hadiield's letter induced Mr. B. G. Watkinson, of 205 Lichfield Street, Christchurch, another young man who has passed the allotted span of life, to write a most interesting and eloquent letter to Uncle Sam and the children. We says:- — "Y heard son telling the dear children to-might and reading a letter from a young man seventy years old. We are never old when our hearts are young. I am older than that. I have ehildren, grandchildren, and_ greatgrandchildren. I am _ still working from 8 o’clock in the morning till 5 o’clock at night, and always try to hear the children, both week days and Sundays. I have only missed hearing them once since they have been broadcast. ell them it is over 66 years siuce I started working. I had to be at the werks at 5.30 a.m., half an hour for breakfast, one hour for dinner, and knock off at 5.30 p.m., and I had just turned 12 years old. "YT want vou to tell them that I have neyer been in a church for nearly forty years, never heard a concert or lecture, for the simple reason that I am very deaf. I could not hear a gramophone or a piano unless I put my head against it, or anyone singing in the same room. Still, I can hear every song and practically every word you children sing, and Uncle Sam’s voice perfectly well, J have a powerful radio receivitig set with seven valves and earphones and a loudspeaker, with which I can hear all New Zealand and Australian stations. My dear children, you will understand what wireless means to me, and how grateful I am to you for giving me the pleasure of hearing your young, clear beartifully-trained voices after being unable to hear for so long. ee