DEMOCRACY OR QUINCES?
Sir,-Even if the large number of Cookery Books available did not make your cooking pages somewhat superfluous, I could not help noticing in a recent issue that democracy gets barely a page, quinces two pages. The ratio seems disproportionate. Music gets a quarter of what the quinces occupy. Could you drop the tucker for a while and give us an indication of what is going on in the New Zealand head, instead of suggestions for what might go into its stomach? What is happening in the New Zealand ffim studios-what are its problems, its policy? Is a New Zealand documentary shaping itself? What is H. C. D. Somerset doing at the Feilding Community Centre? How much life is there in the women’s organisations of this country? Not much, I guess, but can’t you put your reportorial staff on to finding out why? What are the characteristics of the art schools of this country-does Auckland differ from Canterbury? If so, how much? Why can’t you interview a van-driver from the country library service? How do divinity students feel about being exempted from the war? How is music being affected by the war as far as New Zealand’s concerned? Are orchestras breaking up, or are the members mainly over sixty? There’s a lot I’d like to know about this country. Your magazine does part of the job, but it could go further.
LESS ON THE EATS
(Dunedin).
(We refer to this letter in our leader column.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 4
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247DEMOCRACY OR QUINCES? New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 4
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