OUR FRONTISPIECE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 5

OUR FRONTISPIECE

Sir,-Since you took control of The Listener I have had occasion to write, approvingly, to your Ministerial Chief. As a subscriber since the original first publication, however, I feel that I must offer my protest against some of your frontispieces, May I be permitted to suggest that your valuable and

widely studied publication could, in this respect at least, be more advantageously used, in the general interests of the Dominion. The incongruous rubbish --I suppose we are expected to assume it to be some sort of Art-which you offer to us this week (No. 56) on your cover page is an insult to your intelligent subscribers; you could have quite appropriately changed the name at the foot to Goebbels. Really, this and other submissions (your issue, No, 50, for instance) detract from the high quality of other portions of your issue, Having submitted a destructive opinion, permit me now to give you a constructive one. I would suggest that you use this most valuable front page, occasionally, by incorporating suitable New Zealand scenic-tourist illustrations (with explanatory data), the purpose being to influence some of your numerous subscribers to visit these places when on vacation, Doubtless the Government Tourist Department would, willingly, supply you with a range of blocks of the innumerable beautiful spots in various portions of the Dominion. Then, you .7ould be doing good service. I suggest that you do no service whatever to any section of your readers by the publication of such illustrations as those to which I have referred. I would, please, have you to know that I wish the very best for your publication; hence my criticism.

W. J.

BARDSLEY

(Dunedin),

(We gather that our correspondent takes life eager 52 do we-so seriously that we can’t afford to be "Little Sir Echo" to the Tourist Department.-Ed.),

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