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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 6

-_-_-_-_-_- Sir,-Since my brow is just one of those ordinary affairs with bumps and hollows about evenly distributed, I cannot offer you or the Director of Broadcasting useful criticism either constructive or destructive. However, I am sure you must have quite a large stock of advice stored up, so may I send just a small pat-on-the-back from a contentedly omnivorous listener-in. A school inspector seeking the meaning © of "omnivorous" once prompted the class thus: "Now what would you call an animal that eats nothing but grass?" Duly answered, he continued: "And one that lives on flesh?" "Right" "Now how would you describe an animal that eats everything that comes its way?" Bright boy: "A gutsy brute, sir." Well, perhaps I am that kind of animal, but so far I have managed to avoid the painful Radio Indigestion that afflicts the too fastidious programme taster. To me it seemed a particularly happy idea to follow the BBC news with its inevitable tale of destruction by 3YA’s Correspondence School Educational session. The story of constructive work amongst way-back children was a tonic to folks bewildered and distressed by the shattering of things moral and material that had seemed the foundation of our civilisation. This calm recital of continuity and the unhurried building-up of a cultural life for the pupils of the Correspondence Classes somehow restored a sense of balance for at least one of your subscribers. This "tonic pearl" is only one of the many that the NBS casts in your printed programmes-so let us

wallow on happily and hopefullv-

PIGGY

(Ouruhia)