David, on arrival from Britain in 1964, started his career with the NZBC design section. His experience in Television with both Associated Rediffusion and the BBC stood him in good stead, however, and soon afterwards he became producer of Junior Magazine from Auckland. This programme was an exhausting one for David but he still managed to produce a different and original script every week. Within the framework of the children's programme David filmed what could be considered as classic in the Chaplinesque style. Charlie Donut became a firm favourite with his floppy moustache and scruffy dinner suit, as did Constable Bobbypin, that upholder of the law with a penchant for flowers. This fact was borne out by the many thousands of letters received from the junior set each week.
In 1966 David was appointed film director for the Town and Around programme and it was from this full-time film directing that he went on to direct and produce Te Ao Hou (The New World) a filmed programme featuring Maori and European chi1dren's choirs in appropriate locations. The sensitivity and care that David lavished on this film-produced at short notice for an Asian Broadcasting festival of Television fi1m-will stand as a tribute to the outstanding talent he possessed in this field. After successfully launching On Camera last year, David went on to produce the Monday night Sportsroom until his untimely death in a motor accident in 1968.
Based on memorial in New Zealand TV Weekly, October 21, 1968
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