Compliments of the Season
S the power came on again on the morning of the Great Christchurch Snow a voice from 3YA came from the set. It was Dickens, but whether it was selected with a view to seasonability, I do not know. If it was so selected, it should have been Christmas at Dingley Dell, or-more in keeping with the general civic mood-Scrooge; but it was
Bransby Williams giving Mr. Micawber’s Advice. Later the same morning-as I returned from trudging devotedly to the post office, past the stalled tram and the highly Dickensian snowballers, to post my last week’s contribution to Viewsreel -. Harry Lauder was to be heard singing a song whose refrain, if I remember right, runs: But when the snaw is snawing and it’s murky overheid, och! it’s nice tae get up in the morrning, but it’s betterr.tae stay in bed." No dissentients. And to round off the series of radio comments on our plight, -we hear (the morning after an 18-degree frost) that Radio Brazzaville, situated in the balmy climate of West Africa, declares that Hitler is on an island in the Antarctic. To the citizens of Christchurch it seems like a good idea to leave him there.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 10
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202Compliments of the Season New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 10
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