Sir,-In your editorial "Death of a New Zealander" (issue of June 1) your leader writer lets himself go with the following inspiring words: "Talent can neither be found by looking for it nor, when found, foreed. The most we can do is to treasure it when it comes, and pay for it, and that calls for imagination as well as courage. Instead of agreeing that we can’t pay the price offered by bigger and richer countries we should realise that we can’t afford not to pay it-.and a little more." That is good meaty stuff-so good that it is almost convincing. But when one recollects the microscopic fees paid to
wiiters by the radio authorities in New Zealand, this editorial has a hollow ring. Your paper, as part of the National Broadcasting Service, must be aware of the miserable payments offered to writers by the Broadcasting Service-and you talk of the advisability of paying more than bigger and richer countries!
AMAZED
(Christchurch).
(We are concerned only with what we ourselves pay, and it is more than any other journal in New Zealand pays. It is still not enough, or nearly enough, but national traditions are not broken quickly.-Ed.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 313, 22 June 1945, Page 5
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