God is Not Mocked
OW that the novelty of hearing weather forecasts on one’s own radio again has had a chance to wear off, perhaps some of us are asking whether the best solution has been found for the problem of conveying the forecast from Weather Office to NBS. Obviously the very latest report is wanted and even the time taken to deliver a script to 2YA for an experienced announcer to read might be valuable. But at what cost do we enjoy this realistic and up-to-the-minute authenticity? Some of the ner+ yous young men who have endured the trial of reading the forecast in the course of their duties have communicated their embarrassment all too vividly to us who listen. There has been one whose every deep breath is heard, a gasp before each fresh attack upon the script. Another fancied himself shouting to the entire population of New Zealand from the mountain-tops, and his delivery lost all that intimacy we are entitled to expect. And some have been desperately slow and deliberate. The scripts have. been (of necessity?) devoid of the graces of the English language. And this is perhaps a just punishment for our modérn heresy, whereby we permit the scientists to deny the Soul of language. But let them deny the Soul and anything else they wish, the Lord will still con- | found their predictions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 10
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229God is Not Mocked New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 10
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