SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

MONUMENT should be raised on the Downs of Dover to commemorate ~: event which brings to mankind neither bloodshed nor strife, but rather a token of peace.-A young journalist on the staff of "Il Popolo" when Bleriot tlew the Channel. Author's name: Benito Mussolini. ok * * YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.Rasselas, Chapter 1. * * % A YEAR ago, a patient at Waikato hospital took an egg to bed with him and hatched it. The chicken is alive, and in its cage is a letter from its foster-father stating it to be the one he hatched. -A twice-téld tale, offered to us now from the U.S.A. # * * I‘. is one of the problems of creative work designed for the new medium of the radio that there is little to show for it when it is done.-*" The Listener" (London). % * * ANTER has not been able to kill the old school tie; but now a rival has appeared. A leading men’s outfitter in Manchester reports a boom in Army ties. Every regiment, and the secondline Territorial battalions have their own particular ties. A.R.P. ties are also reported to be a "good line."--" The Manchester Guardian." * * % [= is proposed to round up the ponies and, as they ’ cannot carry rear reflectors, it is suggested that white stripes should be painted over their hind-quarters.-BBC announcer, reporting (quite unemotionally) that motorists in the New Forest had already had some accidents through inability to see the wild ponies because of the lighting restrictions. ; * * % PLEASE don’t think I boast of being a collector. In my occasional moments of sanity I’m heartily and utterly sick of it--M. Willson Disher, in a radio talk entitled "I collect." * * * To total number of land birds breeding every May in Britain is only somewhere between 80 and 100 million. So if everybody went out in May and caught two breeding birds there’d be none left. Rather a frightening thought.-James Fisher. x * os