Founders of Otago to Broadcast through 4YA

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 March 1930, Page 5

Founders of Otago to Broadcast through 4YA

Eighty-second Anniversary Celebrated N ext M onth

NHE} 82nd anniversary of Otago -is approaching, and, the usual annual celebrations are in hand. As the actual anniversary, falls this year on Sunday, the Otago THarly Settlers’ Association will hold, on the afternoon of Monday, March 24, a meeting and concert programme for the early settlers, which all the available pioneers of early years will attend. In the evening there will be the usual concert. Listeners will recollect the interesting programme that was provided by some of the early settlers on Pioneers’ Night (December 21), when several of the earliest settlers provided some interesting reminiscences of pioneer days. Dunedin is fortunate in having such an organisation as the Otago Early Settlers’ Association, with its wonderfully interesting museum, containing so much of historical value. Sir Charles Fergusson, the late Governor-General, never failed to visit the Museum when in Dunedin, and members probably. will have read the reference he made to our Early Settlers in his farewell speech. In that speech he said: "What are those fundamentals? I suggest that we could best learn them by spending an hour or so in the Early Settlers’ Museum. Look at the photographs of those men and women of the early days, and see how character is stamped on their faces; read the history of what they went through, and how they strug-

--eEegled and fought and won through sheer determination. Go through the churches and look at the m*%- | morials, or go through the graveyards and read the inscriptions on the stones, to see what manner of men and women they were. Then -sif down and think whether. we cannot learn the fundamental lessons from those people to pass on to. our children," , This is what visitors.think of the Otago Barly Settlers’ Association, and early settlers are proud to have their names entered on the membership roll. Radio Plays its Part. HE programmes on Monday to be broadcast by 4YA will be of great interest to those early settlers who are in Central Otago and other centres of the Dominion. They will hear some of their friends of the pioneer days speaking, and will be able to listen to some of the old songs which they love. so well. These songs are to be presented during the evening between the speeches of welcome and congratulation. The entire proceedings will be broadcast by 4YA. It will be the endeavour of Mr. W. Paterson, the popular and well respected secretary of the Barly Settlers’ Association, to get as many old identities as possible to speak through the microphone. This should create a deal of interest especially amongst the younger generation. TEE oa