STRATFORD POST OFFICE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 6

STRATFORD POST OFFICE.

Arrangements for Christinas and New Year.

are'.Christmas and New arrangeSneftts at'the Stratford OffiCQl irsday, 24th December, 1936, and jday, 31st December, 1936: $. -FiU. be a delivery over the er .between th hours of 7 p.m. I pan. of'correspondence (regisas well as ordinary) usually de>d by, postmen;,. stmas Day: The Post Office will osed in, all branches. The tele-, phone exchange : will be open continuoiflKF, •. > '■ ||fc.xing bay and New Year’s Day: street letter/receiving boxes will at-7 a.m. Mails close at S:,a.m./ and will be despatched to pittrfcipal post offices served by rail* will ba despatched to post the Stratford-Main Trunk ■ Correspondence will not be s&>Od Into .private boxes. The post will 4 ho Closed in . all branches. ■■will be open fr£tn 9 a.m, to 10 a.m.„ and from 7 J||i.to 8 pim. The telephone exb6'Qpen continuously. Sfc. ■/■■ -

ft/: Scottish Element D'* ■■ • ’ • -jMy- own-'earis by no means abnormkj&ijsensitivej: and, yet I have sat, in a roont, Jwjien some utterly foul noises hifetßeeix issuing from the loud speaker SckMese noftes have not caused one n-ord: of .•eomment r favourable or unfavorable, from'the other persons pre-jenV-writes “Ariel” h» the Chrutthijibh Press.” It appears to me that th# >New Zealand ear dislikes variety or change* .. , n . . - ■ As an example, consider the Honourable Archie” series of recordings.! These recordings are utterly humoJrless, they go on and on and on f and hey have no object of any sort, they are not dramatic, they are not pleasing fr«h au artistic viewpoint. Listeners been, inflicted with this series for aitny .months. . Apparently they will continue to be dieted with them. But strangely jntugh, nobody minds. The great mass >f neither likes nor dislikes ■ - They have got used to Archie inch Eb and Zeb, and they switch them mZind t-hen don’t listen to them. This toughness of the New Zealand •ar-and palate, is, I think, due to the fact of the large Scottish element io the country. The JScot, brought up in porridge, and haggis and the skirl if the bagpipes, is always a Scotsman, jven after the lapse of several genera lions and transplantation into a land. - The barrenness, luck of fertility .\ r beauty of his native land, combine, with a physical diet of tough oatmea. and an aural diet Of bagpipe music oiakg • him mentally and physical.} g characteristic of the people who select our broadcast programmes may be discovered by listening to New Zealand radio for some wee"ks. There are literally hundreds of thousands of records in existence, and yet listeners hear the same tew records over and over again Bing Crosby, Heifetz, Kreisler, Graeie Fieiis. Toscanini;, not an hour comes without one. of these, names being announcer.