Sulphur or Snow?
STATION 1ZB’s Junior Quiz is preoccupied with matters of New Zealand history and geography. I feel that the school syllabus must have changed considerably since I had any personal experience of it. My own recollection is that we used to know a good deal more about Pitt than about Seddon, and that though we might have been full of information about Land's End, we would not have been so ready with the names of the three capes at the top of New Zealand as the girl was who earned half-a-crown for this knowledge the other evening. The question-master handles it all very, pleasantly, but I fear that he belongs like myself to the old regime, and should brush up his New Zealand geography. A boy was: asked whether Lake Rotoiti was in the North or the South Island. He voted for the South, and when told he was wrong did not argue the point. I don’t want to begin any inter-provincial battles. Both the Rotoitis are lovely, and I should not like to have to choose between them. It is probably easy enough to confuse them, because they have literally millions of things in common, and which Rotoiti leaps first to the mind will probably depend on whether you prefer to be eaten by sandflies among the low, sulphurous hills of Rotorua, or among the high, snowy peaks of the Tophouse district. Not the least of a question-master’s worries in all such sessions must be the necessity for freeing himself from personal associations, and taking a bird’s eye of his subject,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 11
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264Sulphur or Snow? New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 11
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