WHO SAID "PUNCH"?
To The Editor, "The Listener" Sir.-Your paper becomes more interesting with each successive issue. It has lightened many a weary moment for me, and I think that an editor who succeeds in making his paper such a mine of information in such a pleasant way, deserves the congratulations of his readers. One time I used to merely look at the programmes, but one weary day when there was nothing else within reach of my hand I picked up The Listener and on turning over the pages was astonished to find I had been wasting so many cheer germs. Your teaser this week, though obvious, is laughable. Although I have not managed to get a chance of dreaming either on or off my job for some nights past, my brain had no difficulty in unteazling the teaser. The fact that the night watchman "had a dream last night" was the cause of his " being fired." I like your choice of verse for the small folk, and the majority of the line drawings accompanying them have been particularly good. I always read the children’s page and enjoy it too, even though it is forty years since I began to read. anything. For real good clean humour The Listener has Punch licked hollow. So again New Zealand shows the way. More power to your pen and may you wield it for many years to come. Yours appreciatively,
(Mrs. )
SIGHILE
O'GRAINNE.
Christchurch, November 14, 1939.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 December 1939, Page 10
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