W.E.A. AND RADIO

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 33, 2 March 1928, Page 12

W.E.A. AND RADIO

At the Dominion Conference of W.E.A, lecturers held in Christchurch, it was decided to make use of radio whenever possible. Speaking on the question of the duration of lectures, Professor Shelley said the average person could not listen to a lecture over the wireless for more fhan a quarter of an hour and take it in. The psychological effect of such a lecture was something like that of a talk in a dark room, and there was nothing to take the place of personal contact He thought that wireless might be used with advantage for short talks on the nature and work of the W.E.A. rather than for the lectures themselves,