"FOR THE MAN ON THE LAND"

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 February 1928, Page 4

"FOR THE MAN ON THE LAND"

THURSDAY EVENING LECTURETTES. In ready and willing co-operation with the Radio Broadcasting Company, the Department of Agriculture has accepted the company’s invitation to make the big Wellington station, 2YA, render even more valuable service to the man on the land. Although the broadcasting of market reports and the daily. weather forecast is recognised by the farming community as a_ service of. great value. Commencing on February 16, this service will be supplemented by a series of weekly lecturettes to be broadcast by the experts of the Agricultural Department. The course,

Which is being arranged through Mr. Hocper, editor of "The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture," will cover every phase of agricultural and pastoral activity. Instructional talks will be given by the representatives of the live stock division, the dairy, division, the horticultural division, aud the chemistry section. ‘This is sufficient to indicate the wide range of subjects which will be dealt with, and as each talk will be specially prepared with a view to affording really useftil advice to the man interested in the particular topic, the net result should prove highly beneficial to the primary, producers as a whole. ‘To suit the convenience or country listeners-in, the lecturettes will be broadcast at 7.40 o’clock eyery Thursday evening.