...Having People Upstairs

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 336, 30 November 1945, Page 13

...Having People Upstairs

SOME recent listening to 4ZB has convinced me of at least one thinglisteners who enjoy serials never seem to tire of them. How else can we account for the popularity of Doctor Mac, who continues year after year to "adMinister to the sick and suffering" (as the advertisement has it), without any apparent sign on the "part of listeners that he is beginning to bore them. I notice that his adventures get more and more social, and less and less medicul, as time marches on. The one to which I listened recently might have hatpened to anyone, nor did’ the treatment and cure require anything in the way of BMA brains. A woman was d¢eing driven to a nervous collapse by the racket made by upstairs neighbours; a sunple solution was hit upon by the redoubtable Doctor, who encouraged a few kids to ascend to the floor above the neiglibours and play tag, move furniture, shout and scream until the family responsible for the original nuisance took the hint and subsided. Having once lived for a couple of years beneath a family of what sounded like sprightly elephants, I wefs interested in the problem; I would have followed the Doctor’s plan myself, but

unfortunately the neighbours occupied the top flat with nothing above them but the roof. I recommend Doctor Mac’s retributive justice to anyone in need of a suggestion, but would add that, if it is impracticable, a very loud wireless set placed near the ceiling, and left on all day long, may prove as effective.