People Who Talk from 1YA

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 23, 14 December 1934, Page 20

People

Who Talk from 1YA

JULIUS HOGBEN, Auckland so-. licitor and radio speaker, is known to the staff at 1YA as the man who can give a really excellent

18-minute talk from a very brief page of notes-and he is now one of the few broadcast speakers in the northern city who is capable of _this feat. | Mr. Hogben has also mastered the none-too-easy. art of timing his speech to the minute, and he can round off a wholly impromptu radio talk in a neat fashion, and almost to the second. This Auckland legal man once practised. at Thames, and he knows plenty about "bonanza patches," and famous gold finds and‘claims of the past. In fact, his specimens of Thames gold are eloquent of-the richness of that world-famed field, which is oniy right seeing that his interest is -largely focused on a mine that at one stage yielded 80z. of gold out of every 12o0z. of material sent to the surface-a world’s record. But whether Mr. Hogben talks of the law, ancient or modern, and the light its records throw on mankind and its manners and customs, of foothall, literature, the canons of the Church or mining, he takes the trouble to make himself master of his subject, and what he says comes over. compactly, fluently, and with ‘the good seasoning of humour,

MR. H. HOLLINRAKE, professor of music at Auckland University College, came out to New Zealand some years ago, .after graduating Mus.Bac. at Cambridge, and was appointed to his present position when the Auckland Training College temporarily closed down. He is regarded as the best "find" at

the university for many years-ex-~ ceedingly good looking, young, yet very capable and full of zeal, it ts anticipated that he will do much in his present sphere. He possesses the ideal radio voice, and his cultivated tones have been heard fer some time past on Tuesdays during the special education sessions broad-. cast for reception by school children. Mr. Hollinrake’s series of talks on music, so well illustrated vccally and by the pianoforte, have reached a particularly high standard. HE Church and journalism have seldom been regarded as professions that go hand in hand, but the Rev. A. B. Chappell, associate editor of the "New Zealand Herald," is a man who seems to have successfully combined ‘both. He was born in England and came out to New Zealand at an early age, being educated at Tauranga, Palmerston. North and Canterbury College. He gained his M.A. degree in Christchurch and was the first student to acquire a diploma in journalism at Canterbury College. For a time he was employed on smal] papers in the North Island"Bay of Plenty Times," "Opotiki Mail" and "Woodville Examiner" -after which he studied for the ministry, receiving appointments in the Wesleyan Church at Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Feilding, Wanganui and New Plymouth. For six years he was registrar of Auckland University College, later joining the staff of the "Herald," Since he has been in his present position, Mr. Chappell has done much to encourage New Zealand literature, the special Saturday supplement of the "Herald" being eagerly sought after by New Zealanders who appreciate

First Broadcast Accompanied | hy Attack of Nerves "J can honestly say that I have never felt so nervous in my life as I did in the few minutes that I sat waiting to give my first broadcast talk,’ said Mr. Alan Mulgan, speaker on world

affairs from 1YA and literary editor of the "Auckland Star," to a "Radio Record" representative the other day "And facing the microphone was as bad as when I first had to go in to bat, and saw several balls the first over-if my stay lasted that. long!" Mr. Mulgan graduated 1 journalism on the "Auckland Star" and the "Christchurch Press." He has been back on the former paper for sonie years, and has been writing about local and international politics for a corresponding length of time. Mr. Mulgan has also been lecturer in journalism at Auckland Universily

College since 1924. Questioned about the characters in his latest book, "Spur of Morning,’ Mr. Mulgan admitted that Braxton, the energetic and forceful Prime Minister in this story of colonial ‘life of the late Victorian era, was partly "Dick" Seddon and partly imagination. The book, by the way, is enjoying a splendid sale, and is regarded in literary circles abroad as a valuable contribution to New Zealand literature. '

the work of our own writers. Mr, Chappell is well-known in the Auckland broadcasting world,’ and_ his talks from 1YA have brought him many radio friends, AUCKLAND lost an excellent young radio speaker when Mr. John Harris sailed recently fer Europe. Mr. Harris, it will be re-

membered, was skipper of the goud ship Waterlily, which ended its long and adventurous career in the Ellice Islands some two years ago. His companions on this trip were six other old: boys. of Christ’s College, and their adventures in the South Sea provided good copy for many New Zealand newspapers for a considerable time. Mr, Harris seems to have crowded quite a lot into his life-everything from "riding the freights" on the Canadian Pacific Railway to attending Oxford University. A MAN whose theatrical reminiscences from 1YA have earned him a large circle of faithful listeners is Mr. F. G. E. Broad. Mr. Broad spent many of his early years on the stage, and has toured England with various companies on nimerous occasions. During the war ‘he not only did his bit in the

trenches, but amused thousands of Tommies with his song and. patter behind the lines. Mr. Broad came out to New Zealand some years ago and he has contributed many articles . to the "Radio Record" on the Lon-

don stage of pre-war days. He is now living in Auckland. MR. D’ARCY CRESSWELL is an enigma. A member of a well-known South Island family, he was born in New Zealand, and afte a brilliant scholastic career, he was to have become an architect, but followed literature. He has had many. adventures. He worked his way IJome on a cargo ship as a member of the crew, has tramped a good deal over Europe, and is well acquainted with the literary side of London, writes verse, but does not think very much of modern verse. Mr. Cresswell’s book, "Poet’s Progress," was well received in the highest circles in England, and his talks from 1YA have been remarkable for their sense of beauty and

perfect delivery. At present he is working on other books in a little home near Milford, on the East Coast. ANOTHER well-known man who has frequently spoken from 1YA is Mr. John Caughley, Director of Education for a number of years. Mr. Caughley is known in most parts of the Dominion for the keen interest’ he has shown in the furthering of educational facilities. He was educated at Napier, Christchurch, and Auckland University College, gaining his M.A. degree at the latter institution in 1905. He was a teacher at both Napier and . Hastings, going to the Wellington Training College as a lecturer and remaining there till 1910.

Professor Algie is Not. a Mountaineering Gymnast FROM beside the window in his sunny, book-lined room «: _ Auckland University College, Professor Algie, who occupies the Chair of Law and who is well known to listeners to 1Y A, talked

to a "Radio Kecora" representative of one of his best-loved hobbies-mountaineering. "Ir those halcyon days when therc were such things as surpluses. my wife and I used to go te Mount Cook twice a year. said the professor. "I’ve haw several seasons’ interesting climbing in the Southern Alps. although I’m not a mountainecring gymnast. I mean to say, I don’t attempt all sorts of hazardous feats on dangerous rock faces-I go mouitaineering because it 1s exhilarating and because days spent on the snow fields become the happiest memories of aw life. I’ve done some

ski-ing in the Tongariro district, but you cannot always be certain of finding good snow there. In the south you can generally coun! on good ski-ing surfaces." ey tt Professor Algie was a student at the‘ northern ’varsity im 1909, and became a junior lecturer in law there in:1913. He was appointed to the Chair of Law in 1920, and has been there ever since. He has given several series of talks from 1YA, one re"lating to tours in European countries and the other to famous trials. At the moment he is working on a series of talks on the Treaty of Versailles and its consequences, touching on the Saor plebiscite, the Polish Corridor and the difficulties of Hungary and some of the Danubian States. These talks will be presented from the new Auckland station in the near future.