LISTENER IN SOUTH WESTLAND

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 March 1940, Page 10

LISTENER IN SOUTH WESTLAND

To The Editor, "The Listener." Sir,-I wonder how many New Zealanders look forward to The Listener as we few isolated people of South Westland do. My husband actually gets bad tempered if the mail arrives minus The Listener. Way down here, mail and stores, etc., arrive once a week, generally by car, but owing to the bad weather, and swollen creeks, we are often doomed to disappointment. Perhaps the horse and cart will manage to "get through," and about 2.30 in the afternoon a small, hungry bunch of people clustering around the packer’s sled let out yells of delight when they see in the distance "Old Barney" with his horse and cart, emerging from the thick bush which lines the road. Some of us cluster around " Barney," while others clamber into the cart hunting for MAIL. There are sighs of joy when we find it hasn’t been forgotten,

and with cries of "Here, catch your Listener," the men next get busy sorting out stores. Sitting beside a huge crackling fire of totara, that same evening, we read our Listeners, and see what’s what for the week. There’s one thing we of South Westland especially delight in listening to, and that’s 2YA’s broadcast from the Exhibition Studio of Maori songs and music Yours, etc..

B. D.

JOHNSON

Gillespie's Beach, South Westland, February 14, 1940.