SHORTWAVES
VEN the vast white continent of Antarctica, which to-day supports _ at its northern extremity only two poor species of flowering plants, once knew the song of birds in the trees of the forests which clothed its shores.
L. H.
Millener
1XA:
* * * WOMAN’S fondest wish is to be * weighed and found wanting.-Walter Winchell. Ea * * HE basis of humour is the satisfaction we feel at the discomforture of a fellow man.-Basil Howard, 4YA.
"| HE Hope Metal Products Company is doing swell", Bob Hope told a Chamber of Commerce. "You know the big bombers with the huge wing span? We make the clips that keep the blueprints together."-Readers Digest. * * * HE work of the Ultra-moderns is like the reply of the cookhouse recruit when he was asked how to’ make hash. "You don’t make hash", he said, "It just happens."--Ken Alexander, 2Y A, * % %* ‘THOSE who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means . . . Politics bereft of religion are a because they kill the soul-Mahatma Gandhi. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 167, 4 September 1942, Page 2
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169SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 167, 4 September 1942, Page 2
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