Talks from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 2, 22 July 1932, Page 12

Talks from 2YA

"MAKERS OF NEW ZEALAND" is the title of four talks to be given from 2YA commencing on Thursday, duly 21. The speaker is Mr. L. R. Palmer, M.A., Dip.J. Mr. Palmer, who ‘fs a member of the staff of Wellington Gollege, has made a special study of New Zealand history, especially of that gection dealing with the activities of the New Zealand Company and the Wakefields. Mr. Palmer has written a biography of Captain Arthur Wakefield, founder of Nelson, which is to be published shortly. The subject of Mr. Palmer’s first talk, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, is particularly seasonable sitice it is just a century ago that he was evolving the now famous "Wakefield System" of colonisation which was put into partial practice for the first time in New Zealand in the foundation of Wellington itself.

Man and His Social Institutions. MMBENCING on Saturday, July 23, Professor T, A. Hunter,’ M.A., M.Sec., will give a series of four talks on "Man and His Social Institutions." Professor Hunter, who is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, is known throughout New Zealand as a keen student of the social sciences and as a stimulating and outspoken lecturer.