DOUG. LAURENSON AND THE ANTI-NOISE LEAGUE
) OUG. LAURENSON of 1ZB just returned from holi-day-a fortnight’s fishing up | at the Great Barrier. We asked him | if he was still anti-Bing Crosby and /Fats Waller. We knew from his ‘remarks in the Request Session that he didn’t like them. Mr. Laurenson drew himself bas to his full height, all six feet ‘one of it. | "Why don’t I like Fats Waller
and Bing?" he barked. "Have you ever tried to pick your way among dozens of portable gramophones on any Auckland beach on a Saturday afternoon? Have you ever tried to go for a quiet walk in the bush and comé upon a car with a wireless, or a bush cottage with a gramophone? Have you?" he glared at us. "If you have, you'll notice they all play Fats Waller and Bing!
"After trying to have my fortnight’s holiday in peace and quietness, I have decided," he continued, "to try and start an AntiNoise League. I really think our scientists have been jolly slack in not having by now invented a soundless bell, or a mute sledgehammer. The only people who really try to reduce noise are the car manufacturers, who really have produced an almost noiseless engine. Then they go and put a hooter on it! Still, I think the the league could do a lot of good, I am sure noise can be eliminated. I’ve seen many a man speechless!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 48
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239DOUG. LAURENSON AND THE ANTI-NOISE LEAGUE New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 48
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